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Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI

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Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the…

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  1. 2026-08-31 13:07 · The Next Web
    Meta planned to cut some teams by 60% and replace the work with AI

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