[treis]

It wouldn't surprise me if someone glanced at the "Probabilistic Programming Team" name and said "I don't know what that is but I doubt we need it" and added them to the chopping block.

[cableshaft]

Meta hired the consultants from Office Space. "Probab...probabli... probably not going to work here anymore, anyway!"

Scene from Youtube: https://youtu.be/9ZUw8LYOQ-g

[musk_micropenis]

Facebook/Meta is an engineering-first organisation. There's no way that is how it went down.

[alasdair_]

Facebook/Meta is a Zuckerburg-first organisation.

Moreover, there are still a lot of decisions being made that are basically down to politics rather than engineering merit, or there were while I was there.