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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by HDThoreaun on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:21PM (#45676409)
Why would a business release a revenue negative product? Stopping engineers from making products that dont contribute to the bottom line is exactly what these gatekeepers should be doing
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by fooker on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:53PM (#45676626)
Because you don't have perfect foresight.

Something that loses money now can be the next big thing. ChatGPT is the biggest recent example of this.

I had seen chatbot demos at Google as early as 2019.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by lII1lIlI11ll on Thursday October 23, 2025 @03:12AM (#45679093)
Because due to that mindset now FB sucks and no one wants to use it anymore?
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by HDThoreaun on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:50PM (#45687728)
FB ad serve up 10% yoy but no is using it?
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by array_key_first on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:15PM (#45689188)
Correct, they don't know yet that their platform is dead, but it is. Most of those are bots.
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