This isnt shocking considering Zuckerbergs comments.

I'm kinda shocked it happened this fast though. We had headlines of billion dollar offers for AI engineers and a few weeks later it all came crashing down.

Wonder if this is going to be like when Twitter laid people off and the rest of the tech industry rapidly went from hiring pretty much anyone who applied to the current career apocalypse that software developers are going through.

Wait, isn't that the Metaverse folks?

I am sure, as successful and highly monetized projects, both the Metaverse and LLAMA need more people paid at 100m/y each. Under the wise guidance of the Zuck, we are sure to achieve Superintelligence in a matter of weeks.

I recently tried building something with Meta’s APIs again for the first time in a while.

What a mess. The UI is confusing, the structure makes little sense, and the documentation is often outdated or even contradictory. To top it off, paying for WhatsApp’s Cloud API only works with Visa or Mastercard, while ad payments support many more methods.

I’ve had the same frustrating experience with Microsoft, Google, and Apple. In the end, whichever tech giant offers the best AI APIs will likely still lose ground if their developer experience continues to be this poor.

They would never do this. I wouldn’t trust the PR here. It’s like a shark saying it’s taking time off.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44968111

I can't imagine anything much less newsworthy than a hiring freeze during a reorg