Zoë Schiffer

Like, it's more, you know, and it's not to say the ad product doesn't have AI in it, but like... Yeah.

There are other parts of the business that have been around for a lot longer that are actually doing exceedingly well.

And now these employees are saying, hey, we actually were doing our jobs pretty well as seen by the fact that the company is printing money.

And now you are asking us to go do this other thing that is actually causing us to somewhat lose a bunch of money and force you to do these mass layoffs.

So like that situation feels very frustrating.

Yeah.

Well, this was an exciting week for Wired.

We got a bunch of news from inside Meta.

I saw that and I was like, we're going to mention this in story one, but this is actually story two.

We're going to do two separate scoops on this because the hackathon was its own saga.

But yeah, we saw employees basically immediately jump into the comments and ratio people that were talking about the hackathon in positive terms.

They were saying things like, we're not a company that has a hackathon class.

I simply don't have time to do a hackathon.

Like, I am stressed about my actual work and you want me to go play with fun toys?

Like, no, thank you.

People were pissed.

Honestly, people care a lot about the snacks at big tech companies from what I have seen.

So maybe this will do something.

But I do think people were like, this is not the point.

Like, we're worried about the mission of this company.