Meta moved up to half its core engineers to data labeling and RLHF (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
An estimated 4,000-5,000 software engineers, out of about 25,000, now sit in a new 6,500-person org doing data labeling and RLHF. The autonomy-to-labeler whiplash is the part people on core infra and security teams can't stomach.
Add keystroke and mouse tracking with no opt-out, rolled out in late April, and a CISO who resigned the day after an AI support flow let attackers hijack Instagram accounts.
The flip: a former Meta engineer says the well-run orgs were all acquired — the homegrown ones were always the mess.
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