A Meta executive in charge of building the company\u2019s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to \u201cgo 5X faster\u201d according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media.<\/p>\n
\u201cMetaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,\u201d the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta\u2019s VP of Metaverse, said (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should be using AI to work five times more efficiently than they are currently working\u2014not just using it to go 5 percent more efficiently.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is simple yet audacious: make Al a habit, not a novelty. This means prioritizing training and adoption for everyone, so that using Al becomes second nature\u2014just like any other tool we rely on,\u201d the message read. \u201cIt also means integrating Al into every major codebase and workflow.\u201d Shah added that this doesn\u2019t just apply to engineers. \u201cI want to see PMs, designers, and [cross functional] partners rolling up their sleeves and building prototypes, fixing bugs, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI want to see us go 5X faster by eliminating the frictions that slow us down. And 5X faster to get to how our products feel much more quickly. Imagine a world where anyone can rapidly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours\u2014not weeks. That’s the future we’re building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s metaverse products, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg renamed the company to highlight, have been a colossal time sink and money pit<\/a>, with the company spending tens of billions of dollars<\/a> developing a product that relatively few people use.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg has spoken extensively about how he expects AI agents<\/a> to write most of Meta\u2019s code within the next 12 to 18 months<\/a>. The company also recently decided that job candidates would be allowed to use AI as part of their coding tests during job interviews<\/a>. But Shah\u2019s message highlights a fear that workers have had for quite some time: That bosses are not just expecting to replace workers with AI, they are expecting those who remain to use AI to become far more efficient. The implicit assumption is that the work that skilled humans do without AI simply isn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n