Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse To Use AI to 'Go 5x Faster' (wired.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/10/1431240/meta-tells-workers-building-metaverse-to-use-ai-to-go-5x-faster
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-push-metaverse/
> "Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%," the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta's 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 -- not just using it to go 5 percent more efficiently.
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> "Our 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 -- just like any other tool we rely on," the message read. "It also means integrating Al into every major codebase and workflow." Shah added that this doesn't just apply to engineers. I 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," he wrote.
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> "I 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 -- not weeks. That's the future we're building."
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-push-metaverse/
But WHERE? (Score:3)
To go WHERE exactly five times faster?
Over a cliff in full Thelma and Louise style?
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The unemployment line.
If the stuff "works" you'll get laid off. If the stuff doesn't work, you'll also get laid off.
[1]"Works" is defined as users will accept the AI slop [fortune.com] created, thus watching more ads, that is the actual output of most of these push to AI projects so far...
I hope your META stock is vested. Otherwise...
[1] https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/?utm_sourceID=ORI
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To fix the bugs introduced by the other guys using AI too much.
I have heard from people working on Metaverse that they have no clue what's going on and it's basically someone who ate an entire tray of green brownies while playing Shadowrun.
"Modern Times" (Score:2)
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
89 years have passed, management remains the same.
"Increase Production".
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUbvdZOMXMI
Meta Employees... (Score:2)
...the only people using Meta's AI, and even *they* don't want to use it.
It's only Metaverse (Score:2)
It's not going to kill people or collapse the econonmy if it turns to shit, whithers up and blows away.
This guy here (Score:1)
The exec sounds like Doc Brown from back to the future... on meth.
Executives believe the hype... (Score:2)
and have no idea how it actually works.
Can anyone here back this up? (Score:2)
When it comes to writing code, I'm maybe just shy of intermediate...it's not specifically part of my job and most of my coding experience was either in university or from the occasional side project done for fun. I've used AI a bunch recently for coding, again mostly for fun stuff. Right now, I'm using to code in a language I have zero experience in and I've found I spend an enormous amount of time fixing its mistakes. So much time that it's difficult to say if I'm even saving any time over just learning th
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"AI" coding is a waste of time and effort. I've tried all the "AI"s, and they are all similarly bad at coding, delivering bad result after bad result. The few times it gets it right have been slower than I could have written the code myself. It isn't saving anyone any time except for maybe people with zero coding ability using vibe coding tools. If pro coders really looked at all the hassle that goes along with "AI" coding tools, they aren't really saving any time if they were any good to begin with. And if
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I've found it good at writing unit tests for old code which didn't have them. For writing new code it's sometimes faster and other times I spend as much time fixing the code as I would have needed to write it in the first place.
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I can attest to being 5x more productive on generating the original code for a PR. Especially on projects that I am less familiar with, AI decreases the time it takes me to understand the subset of what I need much faster.
The issue is the rest of the pipeline. Code reviews, dev qa, testing deploy and so on are not much faster. The frequency with which we have meetings to discuss implementations are at the same cadence.
So AI allows me to sit around poking at people much sooner. But so far the end result
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[1]https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.090... [arxiv.org]
TL;DR: Experienced devs feel they get 20% faster with AI but measurements show they get 20% slower.
And then, even if they did get 20% faster, that's nowhere near 5x.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
My GTX 1080 (Score:2)
Can run Second Life at probably 500 FPS so I don't think I need AI to run an inferior version any faster.
Maybe with the raw power of AI and a billion gigawatts of electricity they can add feet to the metaverse.
Also can we please just take the billionaire's money away? I am tired of watching them spend it on stupid shit. Especially when they have the power of the force me to use that stupid shit
Just work 5x faster! Just do it! (Score:2)
Sure no problem. I was working at 1/5 my maximum speed this whole time until you told me to work faster. I had no idea you wanted me to go faster! If only I had known. I like how the purely imaginary idea that AI can make you go faster is now a mandatory production goal even though it has no basis in reality.
Sure... (Score:2)
In 1987, I was working for the Scummy Mortgage Co, in Austin. My boss, the VP, gave me some training tapes after a few days, and I brought in a cassette player to listen, on headphones. Finished them, then brought in music.
Shortly after, he came by, and wondered if I was done yet. I told him I was, then pointed around - a not big room, V-shaped, with four others in it, and the senior programmer and the systems analyst were each on the phone at least 60% of the time.
I told him it cut the distractions, and in
Meta[stasize] is metastasizing 5x faster (Score:2)
The cancer has fully taken over. There is no hope.
Re:Meta[stasize] is metastasizing 5x faster (Score:4, Insightful)
I can operate 5 times faster if you want, but be warned that I will make 50 times more errors.
"AI is an attack from above on wages" (Score:2)
> I can operate 5 times faster if you want, but be warned that I will make 50 times more errors.
[1]"AI is an attack from above on wages" [bloodinthemachine.com]
[1] https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-an-attack-from-above-on-wages
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My points ran out yesterday, someone mod parent up. (But I'm glad I don't have to decide between. +1 Insightful and +1 Funny....)