--- title: "Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI" description: "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a \"midlevel engineer\" this year." date: "2025-01-13" modified: "2025-01-13" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-automate-coding-ai" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Coding" - "Computing" - "Meta" - "Robots and Machines" tags: - "generative ai" - "mark zuckerberg" - "Meta" - "the digest" --- # Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI ![Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.]() *\Image: Andrej Sokolow / picture alliance via Getty / Futurism\* ## Meta Narrative Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he intends to start automating coding jobs with AI — this year. Zuckerberg announced these ambitions, which if realized would send shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley, on an [episode]() of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, [as spotted by *Business Insider*](). "Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code," Zuckerberg said in the interview. A midlevel engineer at Meta, per *BI*, earns a salary somewhere in the mid-six figures. ## For the People Though Zuckerberg doesn't explicitly say he'll replace his human grunts outright, putting two and two together as he explains how the AI technology will pan out — or looking at literally any company that has [bragged about onboarding AI models]() — makes the implications for people's jobs pretty clear. "In the beginning it'll be really expensive to run, and you can get it to be more efficient," the Meta CEO said. "And over time it'll get to the point where a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers." This, Zuckerberg argues, will actually "augment" workers. "My view on this is like the future people are just going to be so much more creative and they're going to be freed up to do kind of crazy things." Pressed about whether AI will eliminate jobs, Zuckerberg doesn't offer a direct answer; he just goes into a long spiel about industrialization and how we're not all farmers anymore. ## Trend Follower A model that does programming jobs fits with the latest fad in the AI industry, which is developing so-called AI agents that are autonomous enough to perform complex tasks without human intervention, thereby serving as a sort of "[virtual employee]()." And as Zuckerberg said, Meta is far from the only one that's pushing for [AI automation in the industry](). In December, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the software giant, which is among the most valuable companies in the world, would [no longer be hiring software engineers]() in 2025. Benioff credited this hiring freeze to productivity gains made with AI technology, including its own Agentforce AI model. Elsewhere, the CEO of the fintech company Klarna [boasted]() that it had laid off 22 percent of its workforce as a result of embracing AI. And in the tech world at large, thousands of jobs have already been [sacrificed amidst the AI arms race]() to develop the latest models. **More on Meta:** *[Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler]()* ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()