- Zuckerberg admitted at a town hall that Meta's recent restructuring and focus on AI agents did not accelerate development as expected, and executives' earlier optimism about tools like Claude Code proved unfounded.
- The article criticizes Meta's 'vibes-based management' as flawed and reactive, citing the metaverse as a failed bet based on the mistaken assumption that the pandemic would last indefinitely, which distracted the company from its core business.
- In response to the rise of agentic coding in late 2025, Zuckerberg placed AI chief Alexandr Wang in charge, leading to mass layoffs of programmers and a shift toward AI-driven content moderation and employee surveillance, based on the incorrect belief that AI could instantly replace human workers.
- The author argues that Meta's fundamental issue is not being slow to adopt trends (as in 2023 with AI) but having no coherent strategy; the recent AI-driven layoffs were misguided because AI lacked the potential to replace workers so quickly, making the management's 'vibe' entirely wrong.
- The piece concludes that being fired from Meta is compared to 'catching the last plane out of Vietnam,' suggesting it might be a fortunate escape given the company's chaotic and poorly reasoned decisions.