# The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

DevFeed: [The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-pulse-meta-wanted-to-reduce-teams-by-60-because-of-ai-40924.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-meta-wanted-to-reduce-teams-by-60-because-of-ai/>)

Author: Ivan Klaric

Published: 2026-09-03T17:01:49Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Pragmatic Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-pragmatic-engineer-2.md>)

Topics: [Meta](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/meta.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Strategy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-strategy.md>), [Job](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/job.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-training.md>), [company](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [facebook](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/facebook.md>), [instagram](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instagram.md>), [job-cuts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/job-cuts.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [meta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/meta.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [reporting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reporting.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines Meta's proposed Project Organization Transformation, which envisioned reducing many existing teams by 60% as AI took over more daily work. It also discusses earlier layoffs, reassignment of engineers to AI training, low morale, and operational outages, while noting that the larger layoff plan did not proceed.

## Source excerpt

An in-depth report by Reuters details how Meta's leadership decided to slash team sizes by 60%. Zuckerberg changed his mind, and now the company is stuck with low morale and culture turned mercenary.