AI AGENTS MEANT TO REPLACE META WORKERS MADE “LARGE-SCALE, DISRUPTIVE ACTIONS”

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Meta's Project OT explored scenarios where the company reduced team headcounts by 60%. It called for two rounds of layoffs, but it is unclear what teams the plan affected. Immediately after issuing the first round of layoffs, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly canceled the second wave. It is unclear what prompted the change of course. Zuckerberg has reportedly acknowledged during a company meeting that the trajectory of agentic development has not accelerated in the way the company expected.