Meta's rapid 18-month pivot to AI triggers internal morale crisis and prompts a company-wide memo from Mark Zuckerberg

i will say the mark memo hints at a level of existentialism that he/meta seems to be reckoning with which i think will just be fundamentally out of sync with where rank and file come from

i.e. steward of employees vs steward of Meta the entity

quote from mark memo, per sources

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-employee-meeting-interrupt-ai/

past 18 months have been sort of insane for Meta and my suspicion is leadership either hasnt tapped into how destabilizing some of these changes have been for rank and file, OR are just trying to push through what is going to be an unavoidable rocky period

maybe both

fwiw I don’t think Mark’s memo was because of one dude popping off, things have obviously been simmering for a while there and I imagine that has not been lost on those higher up

@MikeIsaac Forcing people to transfer into a unit and tracking employees’ keystrokes was always going to lead to this. The mass layoffs simply amplified the issues. Zuck continues to have managerial blind spots or he just doesn’t care

@MikeIsaac ty mike

@MikeIsaac Hey @finkd , I'm around if you ever want to chat.

@MikeIsaac Can't believe some people have not learned the lesson that you shouldn't make work your purpose in life.

@MikeIsaac "we've made mistakes and we'll make more" is not what you want to hear from executives

@MikeIsaac the gulag quote was a bit much

@MikeIsaac IG/FB features + glasses + small business tools + superintelligence, says Zuck.

Engineers writing Proof of Work puzzle code for AI training.

What a mess.

Makes even Google seem sleek and focused.

@MikeIsaac Interesting juxtaposition. Mark still believes he’s running a startup that could be worthless tomorrow but the rank and file joined a blue chip company that believed it would be around for 100 years. There are likely employees at FB who haven’t lived in a world without FB

@MikeIsaac If I was getting a Meta paycheck, nothing would mess with my morale. I’d be shining Zuck’s shoes and be the top company man

@sophiekleeman They really let leaders ramble pointlessly like this? And think it’s good?

@sophiekleeman i am mad that you guys beat me but you did it well, ugh

@sophiekleeman They're so cooked

@PatrickODonne11 @MikeIsaac This is a company where every day you wake up you could experience everything from a personal superintelligence agent to a better tool for small businesses to thrive and create jobs

@JohnTeufelNYC @MikeIsaac They haven’t learned the number one skill when you don’t enjoy your work which is to phone in dogshit for as long as possible and then get paid to go quietly when someone notices after more than 18 months

@MikeIsaac nobody should trust that piece of shit

@brianfagioli @MikeIsaac Meta has been an idealistic culture. On purpose. To go from serving mankind to what it is now is a level of hypocrisy that is impossible to tamp. It’s as bad as it gets.