Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will begin automating the work of mid-level software engineers this year. Meta may eventually outsource all app coding to AI. Meta also plans to replace fact checkers with community notes and reduce its DEI efforts.
This year, coding could go from being one of the most sought-after skills in the job market to a skill that can be fully automated.
Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that some of the biggest companies in Meta and the tech industry are already working on this.
“Maybe in 2025, we at Meta, as well as other companies that are fundamentally working on this, will have an AI that will be like an intermediate engineer in the company who can write code. It will be.”
Although it may be an expensive endeavor at first, Zuckerberg said Meta will begin to run all the code in the app and the AI it generates as well. The company’s mid-level software engineers now earn nearly mid-six figures in total compensation, according to the salary tracking site.
Zuckerberg and Logan’s interview comes after a week of big changes for the company.
Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta plans to replace third-party fact checkers with community notes similar to Elon Musk’s X and bring back more political content. The announcement sparked alarm from dozens of fact-checking organizations, which signed an open letter to Zuckerberg saying the changes would be a “setback” for the company.
Meta also plans to roll back some of its DEI initiatives. In a memo to staff at Meta’s internal communications platform, Workplace, Janelle Gale, the company’s vice president of human resources, wrote, “We no longer have a team dedicated to DEI.”
