Superintelligence or Super-Incompetence? Meta's Elite AI Recruits Crash the Web

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"You may have seen recent compaints about Meta's webcrawler (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092604) and the fact that people are already leaving the SuperIntelligence Team (https://businessinsider.com/meta-superintelligence-team-rese...).

My internal sources report that these incidents are not just correlated but most definitely causated. One of the standard design questions at Meta is to design a web crawler (https://finalroundai.com/interview-questions/stealthy-web-cr...). However since MSL members were handpicked by Zuck they did not have to go through the regular interview loop.

Unfortunately, as soon as these elite recruits started to check in code to mine the web to patch up Llama 4, shit hit the fan, and it became clear that they all had great hair, but severly lacked in coding skills. Nobody gives a shit about the fact that dowloading the same tarball a million times might bankrupt amateur language designers, the real pain is that Meta's disks are filling up so quick that the next generation of datacenters would have to be at least 8 million square feet instead of the already gigantic Hyperion data center currently under construction (https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-...).

Things apparently got so bad that Meta's Infra VP Santosh Janardhan threatened to leave and join either Bill Jia at Google or Jay Parikh at Microsoft if the worst MSL offenders were not let go.

With with Joel Pobar and Aparna Ramani now firmly embedded in MSL, the old boys’ network at Meta proved unshakable, and Mark knew better than to gamble, and ultimately backed Santosh’s side."

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