Raw LLM Responses

Submission statement: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping layoffs of what he refers to as "low-performers" at his empire. According to a company-wide memo [obtained by *Bloomberg*](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/meta-is-planning-to-cut-5-of-lowest-performers-memo-shows?sref=YfHlo0rL), the Facebook owner is cutting around five percent of its staff. And interestingly, the directive is already in tension with what Zuckerberg [told podcaster Joe Rogan](https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-automate-coding-ai) last week about how the company was looking to replace "midlevel engineers" with AI. Instead — in a likely concession to AI just not quite being up to snuff yet — he says employees "who aren't meeting expectations" will be replaced in order to "bring new people in" (emphasis on the "people," for any AI zealots.) "I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster," he wrote in the message, adding that terminated employees would be provided with "generous severance." Zuckerberg wrote that 2025 will be an "intense year" that will require the "strongest talent." But what exactly he means by that remains unclear as the billionaire makes sweeping changes to the company's operations.