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Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?

49 pointsby throwarayestoday at 4:42 PM10 commentsview on HN

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fabian2ktoday at 5:41 PM

> 30-50% of engineers on core teams have been forcefully reassigned to data labeling and RLHF, upsetting folks even more.

This really doesn't sound believable to me, but who knows with all the craziness going on. Software developers in the US are seriously expensive, using them for data labeling would be a waste of resources. And the percentage sounds very high, unless "core teams" is only a small subset of the total developer count.

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simonwtoday at 5:34 PM

Anyone at Meta able to confirm or expand on the details in this?

webdood90today at 5:47 PM

Good. I feel no pity for those that sell out and actively contribute to the degradation of society.

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bevekspldnwtoday at 5:47 PM

”I built the Torment Nexus and I’ll got was a few million dollars and this lousy job.”

nicechiantitoday at 5:33 PM

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