TECH NEWS – Mark Zuckerberg previously announced the death of programmers—and now he’s taken a decisive step to make it a reality. The CEO has openly acknowledged that soon, agents will take over engineers’ work, and Meta is no longer hiding its goal of transitioning fully to virtual agents.

It was something we all felt was coming—maybe even inevitable. Yet in early 2025, during a now-notorious interview, Mark Zuckerberg essentially signed the death warrant for programming as we know it. The Meta CEO predicted that within just 12 to 18 months, the majority of Meta’s code would be written by virtual agents, and AI would fill the seats of its junior and mid-level engineers.

Now, just six months later, Zuckerberg has made his first serious move in that direction, overhauling the way Meta interviews its programmers. Unlike companies like Amazon, which strictly forbid the use of artificial intelligence on coding assessments for new hires, Meta will actually allow candidates to use AI tools if it helps them get the job.

Zuckerberg pushes Meta toward a world of virtual agents

Zuckerberg’s idea is based on the fact that a large number of programmers who carry out tests for them already use copy-pasting from language models or forums found through Google to carry out some exercises, and if in the future they are going to be the ones who control how the power of artificial intelligence advances, they also have to prove themselves efficient with it.

Within Meta’s corporate hierarchy, automated test procedures and key interview questions written by AI have already become common, but Zuckerberg now wants to weave artificial intelligence into the fabric of every level at the company.

The underlying reality of this move is exactly what that initial intuition suggested: at Meta, it’s no longer rote knowledge that proves a programmer’s value, but how confidently and independently they can work with and leverage AI as their primary tool.

Source: 3djuegos