At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as "clean" as it could have been
THE SO WHAT
When one of the most resourced players says AI agent development is slower than hoped and reorgs are messy, that’s a reality check on how hard orchestration and productization really are. If your board expects fully agentic workflows this year, reset expectations and focus on narrow, high-ROI agent use cases you can actually ship and govern.
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