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 wanted to use AI in his company to take over the work of programmers.
He explained that 2025 will likely be the time when Meta and other companies in this sector will have “an artificial intelligence that can be a kind of mid-level engineer that you have in your company that can write code.” This could save hundreds of thousands of euros in the future, as programmers in the USA sometimes earn annual salaries of $500,000.
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Zuckerberg avoids the word layoff, but it’s 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’s pretty clear what the trend will lead to in the long term: Zuckerberg is not the first person to plan such a step. Other companies are also considering laying off or at least reducing the number of certain groups of people.
The Spanish magazine 3Djuegos.com reports that the software company “Salesforce” declared that it no longer wanted to hire programmers because of AI technology. And Klarna, a payment service provider, recently laid off 22% of its workforce. Even the boss of Klarna stated that an AI could take over his job in the future.
Elsewhere, an entire team was laid off so that the work could now be done by an AI. And this brings to fruition the fears of those who have long believed that AI will put thousands of people out of work.
Mark Zuckerberg himself explained that the change could be expensive at first, but that the switch would be worth it. This is how he said:
In the beginning it will be more expensive and you can become more efficient. And there will come a point where much of the code in our applications, including the AI we generate, will be developed by AI engineers rather than human engineers.
And what will become of the programmers? Zuckerberg responded that the “change” will help people because “they’ll be able to be a lot more creative and do crazier things.”
With the emergence of AI agents that become virtual employees capable of carrying out complex tasks without human intervention, large companies moving to similar models will follow the rest and set the trend.
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