Mark Zuckerberg says that AI will soon be able to do the work of Midlevel Meta Coders
- Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta will start automating the work of midlevel software engineers this year.
- Meta can outsource all the coding of its apps to AI.
- Meta also plans to replace fact-checkers with community notes and reduce DEI initiatives.
This year coding will go from one of the most sought-after skills in the job market to one that will be fully automated.
Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta and some of the big companies in the tech industry have been working on it for a while Joe Rogan’s experience on Friday.
“Perhaps by 2025, we at Meta, as well as other companies primarily working on this, will have an AI that can effectively be a kind of midlevel engineer that you have in your company who can write code.”
It may initially be an expensive endeavor, but Zuckerberg says Meta will get to the point where all the code in its apps and the AI it creates will also be powered by AI. According to a salary tracking site, midlevel software engineers at the company now earn close to the mid-six figures in total compensation.
Zuckerberg’s interview with Rogan came after a big week of changes for the company.
On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced that Meta plans to replace third-party fact-checkers with community notes, similar to Elon Musk’s X, and will bring back a lot of political content. The announcement sparked alarm from several fact-checking groups, which signed a open letter to Zuckerberg said the changes would be “a step backwards” for the company.
Meta also plans roll back some of its DEI initiatives. In a memo sent to staff on Meta’s internal communications platform, Workplace, its vice president of human resources, Janelle Gale, wrote, “We no longer have a team focused on DEI.”
