Meta tried to shrink engineering teams around AI
mooreds
16 points
7 comments
September 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
chopete3
If there is 36% increase in features shipped with half the team - that is a win. Even if the new (half) team produces the same number of features it is a win. Why is PR count or number of issues relevant for the overall outcome?. The article is trying to force fit the point their point about AI effectiveness
bhouston
I think that Meta was just too early. I think that software team size per product (how ever you define that) are going to continue to shrink over the next 3 years. You will only need a single product designer/developer/manager per small product eventually. That said, we will ship a lot more products that will partially make up for that per-product team size shrinkage.