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27 Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders'

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msmash @ Slashdot 2 place · today 15:05 EDT

Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders'

An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last week. "I still can't believe I'm writing this: as of today, my full-time job at Meta is AI Builder," he wrote.

Guedj has spent more than a decade as a traditional product manager, a role that sets the road map and strategy fo

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