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The Post-Mortem of Project OT: What Meta’s Scrapped 60% AI Downsizing Plan Reveals About the Real Limits of Coding Agents

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⚙️ The Illusion of the Post-Developer Era In the technology sector, whispers of radical automation often precede structural shifts. But few initiatives have been as stark—or as instructive—as Meta’s recently scrapped "Project OT." Conceived as an ambitious blueprint to downsize engineering teams by…

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  1. 2026-09-18 19:15 · DEV Community — AI
    The Post-Mortem of Project OT: What Meta’s Scrapped 60% AI Downsizing Plan Reveals About the Real Limits of Coding Agents

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