The Post-Mortem of Project OT: What Meta’s Scrapped 60% AI Downsizing Plan Reveals About the Real Limits of Coding Agents

Meta's ambitious 'Project OT' aimed to slash engineering headcount by 60% using autonomous AI coding agents. Its failure and subsequent shift offer vital lessons on the limits of agentic software engineering, the 'Reviewer's Tax,' and how to build resilient team topologies in the AI era.