[spamizbad]

Lots of people blame Zuckerberg, but my own view aligns with the author in that much of this is falls on Alexandr Wang's shoulders (Scale AI's founder). It's perhaps somewhat ironic that the "MEI" guy (Merit, Excellence, Intelligence) was permitted to poach high-performing subject matter experts from key engineering orgs and reassigned them to data labeling - something that, let's be honest, is not where you want to allocate your top performers at an org like Meta.

This is one of those things where a (tech) celebrity founder was permitted to blew up a high-performing engineering culture. If shareholders knew the nuances of this they'd demand his ouster. His leadership has been lacking in merit, excellence, and intelligence.

[lokar]

Zuck hired him and has always been super hands on. He is responsible.

[spamizbad]

To an extent that's true, but while Zuck might be hands on but he doesn't typically micromanage his lieutenants. Alexandr was clearly in over his head, has never run anything resembling a high quality engineering org, and blew it up in less than a year. I think his days are numbered.

[jatins]

Yes, but hiring someone with no experience running an AI lab to run your AI lab is a terrible decision for CEO to make in the first place.

[lokar]

He does not micromanage, but at the same time he does not tune out. He has to see what’s going on.

[y2244]

Newspapers have said Zuck has a desk in the meta super intelligence lab

[menloshark]

> was permitted to poach high-performing subject matter experts from key engineering orgs and reassigned them to data labeling

I think the main proponent was Bosworth, not Wang