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WOW, 🤯 A leaked audio from Meta’s April 30 all-hands.

Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-05-21

A leaked audio from Meta's April 30 all-hands reveals Mark Zuckerberg defending the use of software engineers' work traces to train coding AI models, even as Meta simultaneously cuts thousands of jobs.

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Topics: meta-aiai-laborcoding-aiai-training-data

Claims

  • Meta is using its own software engineers' work traces as training data for internal coding AI models.
  • Zuckerberg argued that models train better by observing 'really smart people' perform tasks.
  • Meta is cutting thousands of jobs while leveraging those same employees' work output to train AI.
  • The disclosure came from a leaked audio recording of an internal all-hands meeting held on April 30.

Key quotes

Meta is reportedly using its own engineers' work traces to train coding AI while cutting thousands of jobs.
Zuckerberg arguing that models learn better when they watch 'really smart people' perform tasks