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Adam Mosseri believes the rise of AI-generated content will be a tailwind for Instagram because people will increasingly seek out authentic, human-created content.
Meta has adopted a new team structure called "pods," which are mini-teams of 4 to 6 generalist engineers and one "product staff" role.
The role of an engineer has shifted from primarily writing code, which previously took 40-60% of their time, to now spending most of their time planning and reviewing AI-generated code.
When Instagram has offered a chronological feed as the default, both overall usage and user sentiment have gone down over time.
Adam Mosseri believes that if Instagram had launched the standalone version of Reels in 2019 instead of 2020, TikTok would not be as big as it is today.
Instagram is using LLMs to describe previously illegible embedding spaces in human-readable language for its "Your Algorithm" feature.
Adam Mosseri believes Instagram is catching up to TikTok in recommendation quality and has a line of sight to being "best in class."
Over 3 billion people use Instagram on a monthly basis.
The "product staff" role at Meta is an evolution of the Product Manager, combining skills from design, data science, and research.
Adam Mosseri is bullish on the future of designers' roles because they possess "taste," a quality he believes is difficult to automate with AI.
Meta does not currently have token limits for its engineers using AI tools.
Adam Mosseri predicts that the cost of an engineer using AI tools might eventually equal their salary, which would necessitate implementing token spending caps.