Brian Barrett
speaker
2,845 appearances
28 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Brian Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 28 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 7.
Appearances
And as much as I enjoy the interruption, I even more enjoyed the deafening silence immediately after.
It's people who had joined Meta because in some cases, I'm sure, honestly believed in the mission of social media apps that can connect billions of people.
Whether you or I believe that that higher mission still holds at Meta, people presumably were there.
And now they are sort of training the machine differently.
The further context here too, Zoe, which we've talked about a lot, but is worth saying, this comes on top of Meta saying, hey, by the way, we're going to monitor your laptop usage and track what you do also in order to train AI.
So if you are a human working at Meta, it suddenly feels like everything you do is just in service of the machine instead of in service of something bigger.
I think it's so interesting that it's risen to a level that management has had to address it in very open forums.
We reported late last week, as part of our first round of reporting this, Mark Zuckerberg himself commented on it.
And one of his proposed solutions or one of his proposed morale boosting agenda items was, hey, let's do a hackathon.
Which went over, how'd that go over, Zoe?
Okay.
How did the meta rank and file respond to the hackathon idea?
It seems like meta has drifted pretty clearly from the days in which, you know, Mark Zuckerberg was the hacker in chief.
The management seems not to realize that.
Or they do realize that and they don't really care because they are in the process of laying people off anyway.
They have big bets going on AI where you maybe don't need as many people in the future.
You sort of trust that AI can do a lot of these jobs at some point along the way.
I want to go to story three, though, because we did have a lot of stories on this, which is Meta did acknowledge that the communication over the reorg was, quote, atrocious.
That's from Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer and longtime high up figure at Meta.
But again.
Showing 1461–1480 of 2,845 · page 74 of 143
← Previous
Next →