Meta explored plans that could shrink some teams by as much as 60 percent and hand more daily work to AI agents. The internal effort was called Project OT, short for Organisation Transformation. Senior leaders looked at scenarios early in 2026. One idea replaced product teams of 10 to 20 people with groups of three to five. Those smaller groups would mainly direct work while AI systems handled more of the development and operations. Meta confirmed the project to Reuters but said the scenarios were planning exercises, not final decisions. The company already cut about 8,000 jobs in May, roughly 10 percent of its workforce, then dropped a second planned round. Internal data showed code changes rising 220 percent year on year, yet features reaching users rose only 36 percent. Employee monitoring tools and resistance also slowed the push. Mark Zuckerberg later said AI agents were progressing more slowly than expected.
Meta explored plans that could shrink some teams by as much as 60 percent and hand more daily work to AI agents. The internal effort was called Project OT, short for Organisation Transformation. Senior leaders looked at scenarios early in 2026. One idea replaced product teams of 10 to 20 people with groups of three to five. Those smaller groups would mainly direct work while AI systems handled more of the development and operations. Meta confirmed the project to Reuters but said the scenarios were planning exercises, not final decisions. The company already cut about 8,000 jobs in May, roughly 10 percent of its workforce, then dropped a second planned round. Internal data showed code changes rising 220 percent year on year, yet features reaching users rose only 36 percent. Employee monitoring tools and resistance also slowed the push. Mark Zuckerberg later said AI agents were progressing more slowly than expected.