Meta Cutting 600 AI Jobs to Move Faster
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Meta is cutting around 600 AI-related jobs to accelerate its development process, sparking discussion among commenters about the implications of such restructuring on innovation and company performance.
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Is this like The Mythical Man Month? If adding developers to a late project makes it later will removing them speed it up? Or does changing anything disturb progress?
Hopefully the ones you let go are not impacting the pool of actual required skills and knowledge.