Mark Zuckerberg has announced the beginning of the end for programmers at Meta. He is not the only entrepreneur planning the same for 2025.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and founder of Facebook, said in an interview on the episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast (via YouTube), that he wants to use AI in his company that should take over the work of programmers.
He explained that by 2025 it will probably be the time when Meta and other companies in this sector “have an artificial intelligence that can be a sort of mid-level engineer that you can have in your company and that can write code”. This could save hundreds of thousands of euros in the future, as programmers earn annual salaries of $500,000 in the USA.
Zuckerberg avoids the word layoff
, but it is clear where the industry has been heading for months
Is he talking about layoffs? No, in his interview he avoids using the unpleasant word “layoffs”. But it is quite clear what the long-term trend will be: Zuckerberg is not the first person planning such a step. Other companies are also considering laying off or at least reducing certain groups of employees.
The Spanish magazine 3Djuegos.com reports that the software company “Salesforce” stated that it does not want to hire programmers anymore due to AI technology. And Klarna, a payment service provider, recently laid off 22% of its workforce. Even the head of Klarna stated, that in the future an AI could take over his job.
Elsewhere, a whole team was fired to let AI do the work now. And this meets a fear of those who have long believed that AI will make thousands of people unemployed.
Mark Zuckerberg himself stated that the transition could be expensive at first, but that the switch would be worth it. He said:
At first, it will be more expensive and one can become more efficient. And at some point, there will be a point at which a large part of the code in our applications, including the AI generated by us, will be developed by AI engineers and no longer by human engineers.
And what will happen to the programmers? Zuckerberg replied that the “change” will help people because “they will be able to be much more creative and do crazier things”.
With the rise of AI agents that become virtual employees capable of performing complex tasks without human intervention, large companies transitioning to similar models will lead the rest and set the trend.
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