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A Meta executive in charge of building the company\u2019s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to \u201cgo 5X faster\u201d according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media.<\/p>\n
\u201cMetaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,\u201d the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta\u2019s VP of Metaverse, said (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should be using AI to work five times more efficiently than they are currently working\u2014not just using it to go 5 percent<\/em> more efficiently.<\/p>\n \u201cOur goal is simple yet audacious: make Al a habit, not a novelty. This means prioritizing training and adoption for everyone, so that using Al becomes second nature\u2014just like any other tool we rely on,\u201d the message read. \u201cIt also means integrating Al into every major codebase and workflow.\u201d Shah added that this doesn\u2019t just apply to engineers. \u201cI want to see PMs, designers, and [cross functional] partners rolling up their sleeves and building prototypes, fixing bugs, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI want to see us go 5X faster by eliminating the frictions that slow us down. And 5X faster to get to how our products feel much more quickly. Imagine a world where anyone can rapidly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours\u2014not weeks. That's the future we're building.\u201d<\/p>\n Meta\u2019s metaverse products, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg renamed the company to highlight, have been a colossal time sink and money pit, with the company spending tens of billions of dollars developing a product that relatively few people use.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg has spoken extensively about how he expects AI agents to write most of Meta\u2019s code within the next 12 to 18 months. The company also recently decided that job candidates would be allowed to use AI as part of their coding tests during job interviews. But Shah\u2019s message highlights a fear that workers have had for quite some time: That bosses are not just expecting to replace workers with AI, they are expecting those who remain to use AI to become far more efficient. The implicit assumption is that the work that skilled humans do without AI simply isn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n At this point, most tech giants are pushing AI on their workforces. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees in July that he expects AI to completely transform how the company works\u2014and lead to job loss. "In the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company," he said.<\/p>\n Many experienced software engineers feel like AI coding agents are creating a new crisis, where codebases contain bugs and errors that are difficult to fix since humans don\u2019t necessarily know how specific code was written or what it does. This means a lot of engineers have become babysitters who have to fix vibe coded messes written by AI coding agents.<\/p>\n In the last few weeks, a handful of blogs written by coders have gone viral, including ones with titles such as: \u201cVibe coding is creating braindead coders,\u201d \u201cVibe coding: Because who doesn\u2019t love surprise technical debt!?,\u201d \u201cVibe\/No code Tech Debt,\u201d and \u201cComprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code.\u201d<\/p>\n In his message, Shah said that \u201cwe expect 80 percent of Metaverse employees to have integrated AI into their daily work routines by the end of this year, with rapid growth in engineering usage and a relentless focus on learning from the time and output we gain.\u201d He went on to reference a series of upcoming trainings and internal documents about AI coding, including two \u201cMetaverse day of AI learning\u201d events.<\/p>\n \u201cDedicate the time. Take the training seriously. Share what you learn, and don\u2019t be afraid to experiment,\u201d he added. \u201cThe more we push ourselves, the more we\u2019ll unlock. A 5X leap in productivity isn\u2019t about small incremental improvements, it\u2019s about fundamentally rethinking how we work, build, and innovate.\u201d He ended the post with a graphic featuring a futuristic building with the words \u201cMetaverse AI4P Think 5X, not 5%\u201d superimposed on top.<\/p>\n A Meta spokesperson told 404 Media, \u201cIt's well-known that this is a priority, and we're focused on using AI to help employees with their day-to-day work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this story A Meta executive in charge of building the company\u2019s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to \u201cgo 5X faster\u201d according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media. \u201cMetaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,\u201d the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta\u2019s VP of Metaverse, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}