Meta Abandons Plan to Replace 60% of Staff With AI Agents After Employee Revolt

Internal documents reveal Meta $META considered replacing up to 60% of staff with AI. Internal documents titled "AI-Native Playbook" outlined plans to slash team sizes by up to 60% across two waves. The proposed structure grouped 3 to 4 engineers under 1 direction lead while pooling design and data specialists. Staff staged an internal revolt against the targets while internal data showed AI agents were ineffective. CEO Mark Zuckerberg halted further plan execution hours before a scheduled layoff in May 2026. "We are the only major company focusing on empowering people and putting the power of this new technology in billions of people’s hands across all our products — rather than primarily focusing on automating work." — Mark Zuckerberg Replacing engineering staff with half-baked AI agents works great in board presentations until software breaks down in production.