Meta to cut 8,000 jobs this week as AI spending surges

[ZAINmalik75]

It is said that 8000 jobs represents like 10% of Meta's workforce. I was guessing this could happen when we saw the news that Meta is building an AI that will help their workers. But after few weeks, this is what we have seen.

I do not see it as job loss though, I see it as a job loss that is replaced by another job vacancy elsewhere like in AI businesses or in modern day employment.

First it was machines which were programmed to do repetitive tasks without getting tired, and these automated machines have replaced thousands of workers in the physical labor field, like paint machines and robotic arms that have taken the jobs of many people. But the world is still running, and development has increased. With those robotic arms, profits for the owners have increased, but the lives of the workers have become harder as they had to look for another job, and some of them did not even get a second job due to the stress they failed to handle. And similar kinds of negative effects can be easy for one person to handle but very difficult for another.

Now it is the turn of Ai to replace a new batch of workers, but this time it is replacing those who would never have thought that their jobs could be replaced. They were working in offices, studying for those jobs, and working hard for their first 20 years of life to achieve and learn something which is now being replaced by AI. But eventually these people will be hired by those who still have not adopted AI or are not willing to, or they will start other jobs. Life has been harsh for hard workers and good for those who adapt early or use new systems effectively, such as content creators, may continue to benefit, while others, such as software engineers in certain areas, may face job losses.

[Satofan44]

At a recent dinner I met a very senior engineer at one of the Big Four tech cos.

His team develops tooling for a 0-engineer future. They're not allowed to tell anyone internally what they're working on to avoid mass panic. He figures mega layoffs start in 18 months.

https://x.com/corbtt/status/1927821116057309685

The topic was made in June 1, 2025,

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5545484.0

We're merely a few months away from the "mega layoffs start in 18 months.

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Bullshit by snake oil peddlers. AI can help but it must be utilized by very proficient workers. If it is utilized by average or mediocre workers the results are terrible at horribly inflated costs. Nobody in their right mind would use anything important that was developed by "AI" with 0-engineers when the said AI can be tricked into failing to compute 2+3. "Whoops, you're right -- airplanes are not supposed to be designed that way, and has unfortunately led to the death of hundreds of people". The tools, free or paid that are available to the general public are extremely dumb and you can flip its answers one way or another just by pushing it enough. Unless there are secret projects that are decades ahead in progress, it is just yet another snake oil peddler.

It is happens and slowly will surges following the development of AI. The company thinks about efficiency and that could be filled by AI so they can reducing their workers and replacing by AI. Maybe it is a job loss for the workers but if they can sign in to other jobs, they can still works but the income will be vary.

That is not how the job market works. Just because "jobs exist" at all that does not mean that the workers that lose their jobs can find replacement opportunities. Whenever there are massive layoffs, the number of unemployeed people is pushing against the supply of available jobs especially when there are no replacement jobs.

The company reduce their costs of the employment so that budget can be re-allocated to other places which will gives more support to the company. AI help company to work efficiently but workers gets the effect so they must develop their skill if they want to work in the company. Otherwise, they can search for other type of jobs.

They are not reducing anything. Instead of firing dead-weight and always optimizing the work force, they bloated their employee numbers with many mediocre and average idiots. Now they are mass firing by using AI which is actually costing them more than the employees that they have fired, "but hey it is automated now!" said the snake-oil peddler. 

[Wind_FURY]

It is said that 8000 jobs represents like 10% of Meta's workforce. I was guessing this could happen when we saw the news that Meta is building an AI that will help their workers. But after few weeks, this is what we have seen.

I do not see it as job loss though, I see it as a job loss that is replaced by another job vacancy elsewhere like in AI businesses or in modern day employment.

First it was machines which were programmed to do repetitive tasks without getting tired, and these automated machines have replaced thousands of workers in the physical labor field, like paint machines and robotic arms that have taken the jobs of many people. But the world is still running, and development has increased. With those robotic arms, profits for the owners have increased, but the lives of the workers have become harder as they had to look for another job, and some of them did not even get a second job due to the stress they failed to handle. And similar kinds of negative effects can be easy for one person to handle but very difficult for another.

Now it is the turn of Ai to replace a new batch of workers, but this time it is replacing those who would never have thought that their jobs could be replaced. They were working in offices, studying for those jobs, and working hard for their first 20 years of life to achieve and learn something which is now being replaced by AI. But eventually these people will be hired by those who still have not adopted AI or are not willing to, or they will start other jobs. Life has been harsh for hard workers and good for those who adapt early or use new systems effectively, such as content creators, may continue to benefit, while others, such as software engineers in certain areas, may face job losses.

Although remember, those will become LOW-PAYING, "white-collar" jobs which will be the first time that it has happened because it will be CHEAPER to use A.I. than hiring actual employees. Those people will consider it "below" their pay-grade.

Plus it's not merely white-collar jobs in offices. It will also affect developers, analysts, researchers, and other such jobs.

[mindrust]

If you can’t beat them, go join them. Invest in nvidia stock and their hardware to run and train models locally.

It sucks if you are just starting this life without any savings though.

Those who live paycheck to paycheck will absolutely get screwed. They will fall so behind and possibly even lose their jobs (as some already did) and that effectively means total destruction for them.

Those who have savings, passive income, assets… these people will increase their productivity a lot because now they don’t have to think many hours over an idea. They can have the best possible step by step implementation roadmap of anything. It could be a career target, a computer app, a business plan, basically anything. Given enough context, the model will give you the roadmap that has the most success rate and people will actually do it because they also have the funds to follow the roadmap they got from the model.

AI is a life hack, a cheat code.

That’s what it is.

[WatChe]

Few weeks ago we saw similar action from Oracle and now Meta is also doing this. This trend is far from over and in coming days more companies will join this trend. As a worker, we need to upgrade our skills and must master AI asap because survival is not possible if you don't have expertise in AI. The freelancer market is also affected due to rise of AI and now online services like content writing, logo design are almost becoming obsolete. That doesn't mean there is no online work available. Work is there, all we need is to update our skills.

[Satofan44]

If you can’t beat them, go join them. Invest in nvidia stock and their hardware to run and train models locally.

Most people with their pajeet investments will not accomplish anything at this point. The investment in Nvidia should have happened a long time ago, not now. Realistically the return that you can get is limited, although the money printing helps a lot to boost up prices of everything into mostly imaginary returns given that a lot of it is eaten by inflation.

It sucks if you are just starting this life without any savings though.

Which would refer to a majority of people, having very little savings is the same as not having any in this context.

Those who live paycheck to paycheck will absolutely get screwed. They will fall so behind and possibly even lose their jobs (as some already did) and that effectively means total destruction for them.

It was always going to happen, and it always has been happening. The main difference is that the previous job losses were more limited and were actually more of job replacements, but the lesson was always the same. Do not stay stuck in a simple job without learning anything. Doing your work is not "working hard", it is doing the basic needed. Most idiots use doing the basic work needed to claim that they are hard workers and then use it as an excuse not to advance their skills.

Those who have savings, passive income, assets… these people will increase their productivity a lot because now they don’t have to think many hours over an idea.

That is not how it works. There is no free lunch. When you off-source "thinking" to someone else, then your own thinking capability starts rapidly deteriorating. Whether it is logical/analytical or creative thinking, whichever you off-source that one you will lose the most.

They can have the best possible step by step implementation roadmap of anything. It could be a career target, a computer app, a business plan, basically anything. Given enough context, the model will give you the roadmap that has the most success rate and people will actually do it because they also have the funds to follow the roadmap they got from the model.

This is just pure bullshit. Unless you are talking about an utopian future where "AI" actually does exist and is advanced, you are gravely mistaken. The current iterations of LLMs give at best mediocre ideas most of the times, and often completely faulty ideas that have no basis or chance in reality. Where are all the great people who have gotten rich off of the great ideas that were solely provided to them by LLMs (boosted work does not count)? There aren't any, and if an occasional fraud does come in the news he's just doing it to gain relevance with a made up story.

Anyway, the whole argument is flawed. If "boosted productivity" becomes the normal, then you have absolutely no advantage at all. You will be at 0 advantage compared to everyone else who is at the "normal" level, only a minority that is not using these things would be at a relative disadvantage to you but they are not important. It is like boasting about your productivity advantage of having a computer versus people who aren't even literate right now, which is a completely useless point as they do not compete with you in anything.

AI is a life hack, a cheat code.

That’s what it is.

That is near the top of the list of things that it is not.

If you AI predictions are like your past Bitcoin price predictions, then we know where it is headed.  

[Wind_FURY]

If you can’t beat them, go join them. Invest in nvidia stock and their hardware to run and train models locally.

It sucks if you are just starting this life without any savings though.

Those who live paycheck to paycheck will absolutely get screwed. They will fall so behind and possibly even lose their jobs (as some already did) and that effectively means total destruction for them.

It may be laughable for you, but currently, more than 50% of the population probably needs two jobs to survive. Plus the most laughable part of this is, you'll still not have enough to actually save in the bank.

Those who have savings, passive income, assets… these people will increase their productivity a lot because now they don’t have to think many hours over an idea. They can have the best possible step by step implementation roadmap of anything. It could be a career target, a computer app, a business plan, basically anything. Given enough context, the model will give you the roadmap that has the most success rate and people will actually do it because they also have the funds to follow the roadmap they got from the model.

AI is a life hack, a cheat code.

That’s what it is.

But for MOST PLEBS like us, the amount of "savings" and "assets" are still not enough to actually tell ourselves that we have made it. I believe the first sign that if a PLEB in BitcoinTalk has accumulated enough money in the bank, and enough Bitcoin in his wallet, is he/she will stop joining a signature campaign.

[dansus021]

No bro te job been replaced whether we like it or not, most peole or AI guy said that AI gonna replaced job with new job but bro JOB is skilled job with high degree, I mean software enginner that basically people who create AI is getting lay off what about low skilled people like me or people that easily replaced by AI

Population decline in the future is really gonna happen chaos is everywhere and like it or not AI is top of technology and become AGI maybe in 2030 and we are so doomed

[henmark]

Few weeks ago we saw similar action from Oracle and now Meta is also doing this. This trend is far from over and in coming days more companies will join this trend. As a worker, we need to upgrade our skills and must master AI asap because survival is not possible if you don't have expertise in AI. The freelancer market is also affected due to rise of AI and now online services like content writing, logo design are almost becoming obsolete. That doesn't mean there is no online work available. Work is there, all we need is to update our skills.

If you are a tech company, not investing into AI to build around your business would be stupid. You do not have to build an AI that is focused on public, you do not have to make a chatgpt, you can just focus on your own business, and that AI would make your job for your company easier. There are tons of work that could be replaced by AI as long as you invest long enough time and big enough capital on it.

Meta for example could use AI for all the tickets and all the ads and it would make things a lot faster and would work great for them. If you deny that and not do it then you are going to stay back when everyone else gets better. This is why I think the best case in this situation would be firing people and building AI. Because if you do not do it today, then you are going to end up with worse later on.

[DrBeer]

It is said that 8000 jobs represents like 10% of Meta's workforce. I was guessing this could happen when we saw the news that Meta is building an AI that will help their workers. But after few weeks, this is what we have seen.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/meta-cut-8-000-jobs-125254890.html

I do not see it as job loss though, I see it as a job loss that is replaced by another job vacancy elsewhere like in AI businesses or in modern day employment.

What positions are being cut?
 
The whole point is that large companies with excessive income, like META, have recently been characterized by reckless expansion of staff, building incubators, and other actions typical of companies with "surplus money". Probably the time has come to "tighten belts" and optimize the company's staff.
I don't believe it's only about AI.

[bitbollo]

There is also the cut of 6000 new jobs. The sum should be seen as 14000 workers that they don't need.
It's an huge number even for a collossus like them. Probably this can be seen as a measure of a new phenomenon - nowadays around 2-5% can be somewhat replaced by "investing" in Ai.

How many years to growth this percentage? How many years to have only "one man" to manage company that can just have Ai workers?

[Wind_FURY]

No bro te job been replaced whether we like it or not, most peole or AI guy said that AI gonna replaced job with new job but bro JOB is skilled job with high degree, I mean software enginner that basically people who create AI is getting lay off what about low skilled people like me or people that easily replaced by AI

Population decline in the future is really gonna happen chaos is everywhere and like it or not AI is top of technology and become AGI maybe in 2030 and we are so doomed

If there was actually going to be a "AGI", then we humans are probably going to follow it to make the most important decisions for us to survive.

I saw a Sci-Fi documentary a long time ago, and it said that the world will be full of independent City-States, but all cooperating with each other. And at the center of each City-State is an AGI that directs the city and the people living in it.

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Perhaps it's now probable?

[shinratensei_]

It is said that 8000 jobs represents like 10% of Meta's workforce. I was guessing this could happen when we saw the news that Meta is building an AI that will help their workers. But after few weeks, this is what we have seen.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/meta-cut-8-000-jobs-125254890.html

I do not see it as job loss though, I see it as a job loss that is replaced by another job vacancy elsewhere like in AI businesses or in modern day employment.

What positions are being cut?
 
The whole point is that large companies with excessive income, like META, have recently been characterized by reckless expansion of staff, building incubators, and other actions typical of companies with "surplus money". Probably the time has come to "tighten belts" and optimize the company's staff.
I don't believe it's only about AI.

Like as you said, I don't think AI is the main reason. META have been overspending on their metaverse vision back in the days before AI boom. They must've lost some good amount of money and I've heard some startups who got bought by them while they are spending lavishly to build their metaverse future. Unfortunately that failed, and right now their AI doesn't even make a noise.

I wonder if it's just the company pushing for more efficiency and not because AI spending surges. It happened to X back then, maybe they got inspired.

[Oshosondy]

Like as you said, I don't think AI is the main reason. META have been overspending on their metaverse vision back in the days before AI boom. They must've lost some good amount of money and I've heard some startups who got bought by them while they are spending lavishly to build their metaverse future. Unfortunately that failed, and right now their AI doesn't even make a noise.

I am not convinced, but I think it is the AI job loss trend that made Meta to also reduced their workers. Meta spent money on metaverse, but not to the extent that they are not making money than that. Not just a small amount in comparison, Meta makes far more money than the money they spent on Metaverse, so it can not be the reason.