Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI
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A plan to cut some teams by 60% and replace them with AI agents—then walk it back when the tech underdelivered—shows how quickly “AI-native org design” can overshoot reality. If your CFO is modeling headcount compression from agents, pair it with explicit capability gates and rollback plans, not just cost curves.
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