Meta’s leadership shifted from a “move-fast-with-stable-infra” model to enforcing mandatory AI tools, tracking engineers’ every keystroke and click without opt-outs. This aggressive push has turned its once-prized engineering org into a monitored cost center, sparking outages and internal chaos.

• Meta shifted from "move fast with stable infra" to mandatory, surveillance-heavy AI tool adoption, tracking engineers' keystrokes and clicks with no opt-out.
• The AI push turned engineering from a profit-driving function into a monitored cost center, causing outages and internal chaos.
• Massive AI spending (Llama models, $14.8B for 49% of Scale AI, a failed $2B Manus AI bid) coincides with mass reorgs and plummeting engineer morale.
• Leadership exhibits "AI psychosis," demanding AI-driven fixes for problems that don't actually exist, further alienating core engineers.