kaiju #10

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

A lot of the people currently shouting that generative AI is the future whether you like it or not said the exact same shit about the Metaverse

Meta just confirmed a 20 percent company wide headcount cut but insiders are screaming the real story is way uglier than the efficiency memo. Direct word from multiple sources deep in the org. The announced 20 percent is only the near-term floor. A senior manager told me it's the starter number. Top leadership is already modeling two to three times that long term. They dug into developer activity logs after rolling out heavy AI tools across engineering. What they found floored them. Hours worked have plummeted for a huge chunk of the org. Many seniors now clocking under 10 hours of real productive time per week because the tools are handling so much grunt work so fast. One staff engineer said leadership pulled dashboards showing commit rates holding steady or climbing while logged hours tanked. Same output. Way less human sweat. The math was brutal. If AI is letting one person do the work of three with half the time input why pay for three. They have been quietly running knowledge extraction sprints for months. Senior engineers screens recorded 24 7. Every prompt logged. Debugging flows captured in brutal detail. Entire decision trees filmed under the banner of process documentation for continuity. One engineer described being forced to whiteboard his whole system design playbook. Trade offs. Failure modes. Scaling hacks. All while cameras rolled. They called it knowledge transfer to support the transition. The transition is agents and remaining skeleton crew armed with those exact recordings prompt libraries and heavy Claude+Gemini access. Replacements are already shipping changes 40 percent faster using the precise workflows they ripped from the outgoing engineers. They are not slashing for cost alone. They are turning 15 plus years of Meta engineering DNA into structured training data. Every document your process request is not teamwork. It is feeding the beast that replaces you. The strategic AI pivot line they are feeding the press is cover. They are replacing the entire engineering organism with agents trained on their own seniors captured minds. CTO level playbook is already locked. Extract. Document. Automate. Repeat at two to three times scale. If you are still at Meta and someone pings you to please record a quick walkthrough of your workflow for the team run. Do not document. Do not hand over the keys. The knowledge extraction is complete. If you are inside watching more engineers get gutted because AI made their 40 hour week look like 10 hours of value, DMs are wide open.