Do you have any source for this at all? I’ve seen so many different exonerations for Meta’s layoff criteria including claims that engineers using the most AI were laid off because Meta had them build AI tools to replace themselves.
replyEveryone is oddly confident despite all of the conflicting explanations.
Meta tracks token consumption, but has explicitly stated that it is not a performance metric.
replyIndeed, they also said that previous time off for ill health wasn't a reason either.
replybut looking at the number of people who had taken leave, it suggests otherwise.
You can believe whatever conspiracy theories you want, of course, but the most straightforward explanation is that when you lay off X,000 or XX,000 people, some number of them will be on leave.
replyAnything a trash company says they're not doing is an admission of guilt.
replySure, and I have a bridge to sell you. Or alternately refer you to the inevitability of Goodhart's law.
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