Meta reportedly drew up an internal initiative codenamed Project OT, aiming to make the company "AI native" by cutting some teams' headcount by as much as 60 percent and replacing much of the daily work of thousands of employees with AI agents overseen by small human teams. Reuters, citing internal documents and over 20 sources, says the plan was set in motion by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in January, led to a first round of layoffs in May, but had its planned second round scrapped after the AI agents reportedly took "large-scale, disruptive actions." Meta confirmed the scenario-planning exercise occurred but says not every scenario was implemented.

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What was Meta's Project OT plan to replace employees with AI?

Project OT was an internal Meta initiative, reportedly set in motion by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in January, exploring scenarios where AI agents would perform much of the daily work currently done by thousands of employees, with small human teams overseeing them. It considered cutting some team headcounts by as much as 60 percent through two rounds of layoffs; the first occurred in May, and Meta canceled the second after scrapping the broader plan. Track how companies are actually deploying AI agents in production on daily.dev before betting your own workflow on the hype.

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