Seems like a lot of CEOs overestimated the speed of AI, but also it is inevitable.
I don't see how this is the same. This is about Meta falling behind in training competitive LLMs against Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Chinese labs.
Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
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#102Everyone I have seen in a corporate environment is using it to do their existing work faster. The rest of the organization has not yet evolved to take advantage of these new tools.
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#103> I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil. I can.
I don't think it is either of those. He is clearly not dumb nor do I think he is inherently evil. The thing is just that he became a billionaire at 23 and did not have to experience any of the grounding and setbacks that turn someone into a responsible adult. He is basically a middle-aged college bro that always got what he wanted and never had to ask twice for something.
It's not like he was a decent person before he got rich.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
They maintained the 2 decades dominance by either knifing the baby (vine) or buying (Instagram, whatsapp) every upstart. The moment they couldn't do either they got their clock cleaned (tiktok)
Wow, that sounds super easy. Why didn't you do it?
It's a weird assumption that the only thing stopping people from the ad business is the effort involved.
Lots of people don't want to sell ads, particularly not with a side of societal harm, even if it would be lucrative. There are other things to value.
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#105I wonder when (if ever) the companies realize that demoralizing your workforce (and destroying that sector of the job market) doesn't have only advantages. I know plenty of people that reacted with the desired fear, putting in long hours to avoid layoffs, willingness to accept lower pay because the job market sucks, etc. - but I think there are also plenty of the the mythical 10x engineers that just checked out, stop…
Using that tool has gotta be a fireable offense, right?
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#106Seems like a lot of CEOs overestimated the speed of AI, but also it is inevitable.
What it boils down to is that speed without direction is at best a waste of time and at worst a recipe for a roadrunner shaped hole in a solid cliff wall. Velocity is a vector, speed is a scalar. AI may help with speed, but it sure as hell doesn't help you move the right way.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Didn’t he famously trash folks over 30 years back? He has really done nothing innovative outside of ads.
What’s innovative about ads?
I dunno if it’s exclusively his innovation, but Zuckerberg’s insight was that you could actually lie to your users by presenting yourself as trustworthy, while having malicious intent to violate their privacy by selling their data to advertisers, and there are no business repercussions for doing so.
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#108At some point, after repeated rounds of ineffective hire-and-fire cycles, it becomes impossible to avoid admitting that the problem is the management.
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#109Re: Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
#110The title is a weird. Ineffective? At doing what? This is an interesting quote from Zuckerberg: > trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected Combine that with the other theories about Meta management in the article, I think we have the answer to is Zuckerberg a "dimwitted or just evil". It's probably the former. He can't plan four mon…
Zuckerberg was never a great strategist. The only good strategic decisions that he was ever made were the acquisitions of Instagram and Whatsapp. Almost everything else was either completely misguided, way too late, or executed so poorly that it could never work.
Meta is basically the Temu version of Google. Google also goes wrong a lot, and they are mostly resting on their big successes from years ago, but they still at least have the people and ability to produce top tier results every once in a while, while Meta was always second rate.