Banafa says he urges his students to use AI.
“Don’t be left behind. I mean, if you see any kind of new tools in AI, any new projects by the big name, by OpenAI or Google, go and learn it. Get certifications, take classes that would make you in the front of the line when it comes to hiring,” he said.
You can smell the misguided desperation from the person quoted through the screen.
They’re laying off 10% of the workforce and simultaneously rewarding employees who waste as many AI resources as possible, including the one employee who burned $1.4 million in tokens in one month.
It’s a contest in tech right now who can signal the hardest that they’re “AI-first,” and Zuck continues to show his lack of imagination and independent thought by lighting 10% of the company on fire to make the most smoke in a valley already choking on its own smoldering fumes.
Even if the whole idea of having employees use AI as much as possible wasn’t stupid in and of itself tracking token usage is a terrible way to do it.
It’s like trying to work out how much work has been done in a warehouse by tracking employees calories, sure the people who’ve burnt more calories have probably done more work but it’s not one to one equivalency.
I can mess around with an AI for an hour using thousands of tokens up and produce nothing tangible at the end. If I’m going back and forth trying to get an AI to write a piece of code and that takes me an hour to get a result that I could have written myself in 15 minutes, then I’m not being productive. But I sure as hell used up a lot of tokens.
This exactly. Tech employees are metric hacking to look good to AI-obsessed bosses, who are too clueless to understand that maybe, just maybe, employees want promo more than they want AI to change the world and take their jobs.
This guy was almost certainly using a swarm of AI agents to make the token burn more efficient.
Damn. I wish I could waste over a million dollars and have my employer see it as a good thing.
I have acquaintances at Meta and they literally waste tokens on bullshit tasks. They have like 10 agents running simultaneously doing some elaborate task that takes a long time. You can’t tell me this is more productive or efficient than doing actual work. Even if half of these tasks are somewhat useful and related to your project.
Lay off 100% and be done with it. Fuck Zuck and his employee stooges.
I don’t understand how Facebook has so many employees. What do they do, what does their standard day look like.
If I don’t show up to my job there’s loads of tasks that wouldn’t get done but Facebook is a website, it can’t honestly need so many employees especially when they never really change anything.
They change the flavors in the frozen yogurt kombucha machine.
facebook is one of the backbones of the internet. that’s why.
Shouldn’t have gone all in on the Metaverse, eh, Fuckerburg?
Don’t worry, they’ve definitely hitched their horse on the right Next Big Thing this time!
He didn’t and doesn’t care.
zuckerborg thought he could download the thoughts of humans into his robot body, but he doesnt have the technology to do so.
Zuckerberg: If I burn all our fossil fuels and lay off thousands more employees, then finally AI will teach me what humans call love.
is there a big seven lay off tracking website ?
because i’m pretty sure they have laid off 123% in the last 13 months
Not including the cuts mentioned here, it looks like meta has reduced the number of employees by about 20% so far compared to last years highest count.
The other have seemingly kept hiring so their staff cuts have not shown in official numbers as far as I can tell. source
There was this site making the rounds a few years ago and it still seems updated: https://layoffs.fyi/
Couldn’t they just fire zuck, since he’s made himself redundant? I bet that’s a hell of a lot greater decrease in expenditure than 10% of the staff…
No AI could replicate zuckerberg’s robotic nature.
He’s majority shareholder or has some trick to never be dethroned.
Don’t know if they can. If I’m recalling correctly he holds enough Class B shares to retain supermajority voting power.
Incoming record earnings and board remunerations!
Only 10%? earnings must be increasing faster than ever.
Their AI must be shit if they can only lay off 10%.
A good AI would let you lay off at least 50%
Of course it is:
I mean I’m sorry but I am not going to cry of you work at Meta.
I’ve been there, (not exactly but in a similar situation) it’s just something to stick on your resume. People get massively over excited if they hear you worked at one of the big tech companies. The automatically assume that everyone who works there is a super genius. This even works for Microsoft employees.
This happens because recruiters never know anything about the industry that they’re recruiting for, so they’re just looking for easy hints and “worked at Meta” is a good, if not particularly necessarily accurate, hint that this person knows what they’re talking about.
Yet somehow, Facebook still managed to transfer an eye watering $50bn to capitalists in 2025 through dividends and buybacks. That is the equivalent of $633,639/employee. Tech workers need to unionize!
What is the actual issue with these layoffs? Why do they always get spammed around and everyone gets mad. Big companies churn employees whats the problem? Do we need to celebrate when they hire 10% back in the next month.
I hope someone asks you that next time you lose your job. It’s only 8,000 people who’s lives have been turned upsidedown, you have the emotional capacity of a CEO.
If they have to hire back 10% next month, their foolishness will be even more newsworthy.
