Not fewer humans, but different humans with AI judgment skills.
This storyline is wrong. Meta needs different skills, AI focused skills. They need people who know how to work with AI. Engineers and Product Managers are replaced with AI Engineers and AI Product Managers. Companies are not firing engineers and product managers because they want fewer humans. They are hiring different humans. Humans who bring judgment into AI systems rather than working around them. Meta’s departing employees are not being replaced by robots. They are being replaced by engineers who can define termination conditions for autonomous agents, and PMs who know how to build evaluation datasets.
— Meta Laid Off 8,000 And Launched AI - Why Jobs Need Different Skills · Forbes