Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

Post by throwaway27448 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:46 PM UTC

cafebabbe wrote: post #520

everdrive wrote: post #484

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I don't like Zuckerberg whatsoever, but there are plenty of reasons you could potentially care about his opinion: - He could be well-placed to see whether AI agent development is successful since at a high level he oversees much of it, and will be getting detailed metrics and things. - Whether or not his opinion is correct, tech CEOs are notorious trend-chasers, and his opinion could set the tone for other companies.…

Honest question, is there a single successful large investment made by Meta recently ? I just know about the abject failures :)

Post by throwaway27448 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC

throwawayffffas wrote: post #530

andreygrehov wrote: post #476

Who cares what Zuckerberg says about AI agents? He is a PHP developer from the early '00s who got lucky with Facebook. He's not an AI scientist or an AI researcher. What authority does he have to speak on the future of AI agents? Morale at his company is at an ATL, and that says more about his leadership skills he'd better off focusing on, otherwise the agents might replace him soon.

He leads a Trillion dollar company that employs a lot of AI scientists and researchers.

Post by rybosworld » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #315

efficax wrote: post #115

I was worried this time last year that by this time this year, companies would have slashed their engineering teams down to a handful and everything would be driven by mostly autonomous agents with human guidance. But it just hasn't happened. Do I write all my code with an agent now? Yes. Can you just give an agent a desired outcome and let it work, unsupervised? Absolutely not. I can produce more code than I used to…

Do I write all my code with an agent now? Yes. Can you just give an agent a desired outcome and let it work, unsupervised? Absolutely not. I strongly suspect that developers moving from writing code to managing agents to write code for them is very similar to developers moving into leadership and management roles and managing ICs to write code for them. Some devs just 'get it' and thrive, leading a team really well a…

Post by ChrisGreenHeur » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

owebmaster wrote: post #544

cafebabbe wrote: post #520

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Honest question, is there a single successful large investment made by Meta recently ? I just know about the abject failures :)

Meta Glasses might be the next big thing.

Post by witos2 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #315

efficax wrote: post #115

I was worried this time last year that by this time this year, companies would have slashed their engineering teams down to a handful and everything would be driven by mostly autonomous agents with human guidance. But it just hasn't happened. Do I write all my code with an agent now? Yes. Can you just give an agent a desired outcome and let it work, unsupervised? Absolutely not. I can produce more code than I used to…

Do I write all my code with an agent now? Yes. Can you just give an agent a desired outcome and let it work, unsupervised? Absolutely not. I strongly suspect that developers moving from writing code to managing agents to write code for them is very similar to developers moving into leadership and management roles and managing ICs to write code for them. Some devs just 'get it' and thrive, leading a team really well a…