# 扎克伯格承认Meta裁员措施收效甚微

- 来源：Hacker News 热门（buzzing.cc 中文翻译）
- 作者：ExMachina73
- 发布时间：2026-07-03 22:47
- AIHOT 分数：57
- AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmr52r3gr07ajsll5jmyof262
- 原文链接：https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

## AI 摘要

扎克伯格在Meta全体大会承认，过去四个月AI智能体开发轨迹未如预期加速，公司对新结构的押注尚未见效。2025年12月Anthropic的Claude Code成功后，扎克伯格将AI部门主管Alexandr Wang提升为全公司负责人。Wang认定所有人类程序员浪费时间和金钱，Meta因此解雇数千员工，让AI负责内容审核，并强制剩余员工安装监控软件以训练可替代他们的AI。但AI并未能立即取代大量工人，扎克伯格基于“氛围”的管理决策被证明完全错误。

## 正文

In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected,” and ​that the company’s bets on the new structure “haven’t come to fruition yet.” Zuckerberg was referring to AI agents, automated systems that can ​execute tasks on behalf of a user.

Conversations he was having “with our top people” when they started planning the restructuring in January and February “were that they were worried that we weren’t going to move fast enough to adapt,” Zuckerberg said.

At the time, he said, executives were “super optimistic” about tools like Claude Code from AI startup Anthropic.

The self-created tragedy of Meta is that the company is loath to invent new products. Instead, Meta’s management more or less relies on “vibes” to govern its decisions, and those vibes are often either wrong or far too late. The most pertinent example of the former is the ill-fated metaverse, which was developed solely on the (unbelievable) whim that the pandemic would last forever — or at least far longer than it actually did — and people would become accustomed to replacing in-person interaction with virtual reality. It was precisely at this moment, roughly around mid-2020, that Meta (then Facebook) disintegrated from a social media company into a Ship of Theseus that still technically operated its core social platforms but fundamentally was distracted by a red herring. Vibes-based management.

As I wrote in my now infamous “Meta-stasizing Cancer of Indirection” piece, Zuckerberg did not learn from this disastrous failure as the artificial intelligence boom kicked off in 2023. Long story short: Zuckerberg threw his company into turmoil because he was too late to identify that the metaverse was an abysmal failure. By the time he did, the AI boom was already in full swing, and Meta was thoroughly left out. This strategic failure, coupled with Zuckerberg’s arguably incompetent management style, left employees either out of employment, directionless, or both. It is just impossible to run a company on a whim — the metaverse was a distraction, and so was AI because Meta was far too late and improperly organized. Vibes-based management.

Zuckerberg yet again plunged his company into chaos after the success of Claude Code in December 2025. Knowing the company was behind in developing AI products after observing the rise of agentic coding, Zuckerberg effectively put Alexandr Wang, the chief of Meta’s AI division, in charge of the entire company. The only thing Wang did was wrongly determine that all human programmers were a waste of time and money and that it would be better to fire them and spend the freed-up cash on talented AI engineers who would unwittingly develop their own replacements. So that’s exactly what Zuckerberg did, per Wang’s hunch: he fired thousands of employees, put AI in charge of content moderation, and mandated that the remaining Meta workers install spyware that would track their computer use to train an agent that could take their job. Vibes-based management.

I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil. The problem during the first era of the AI boom (circa 2023) was indeed that Meta was too slow to identify the metaverse flub. But that was no longer Meta’s problem entering the agentic coding era: The problem, rather, was that Meta had no coherent strategy. The last thing it should’ve done was “move fast enough to adopt” because “adopting” was not the answer to Meta’s problems. AI-assisted programming has developed in the last six months —contrary to Zuckerberg’s claim that it “hasn’t really accelerated” — but indeed not in the way Meta expected, because Meta’s vibes-based management this time was just plain wrong. AI never had the potential to replace so many workers at an instant. The vibe was —unlike in 2023 — not late, but wrong entirely. And I’m confident in saying only a fool could have lent credence to that laughably incorrect theory.

I’d say getting fired by Meta is like catching the last plane out of Vietnam, even in this ruthless job market.