Meta data scientist shifts focus to AI tooling

A data scientist at Meta is updating the team's roadmap to prioritize AI-assisted development of internal tooling. The effort centers on applying current AI capabilities to build and maintain tools while assessing how those systems will evolve. An engineering lead expects informally generated AI code to collapse within one to three years, though future models may identify and fix flaws in prior outputs. Replies noted that nearly all code eventually becomes technical debt requiring rewrites.

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