{"id":1028354,"date":"2026-08-12T11:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028354"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:38:23","slug":"meta-chief-technology-officer-andrew-bosworth-told-an-employee-at-townhall-it-is-very-dumb-to-keep-asking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/meta-chief-technology-officer-andrew-bosworth-told-an-employee-at-townhall-it-is-very-dumb-to-keep-asking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth told an employee at townhall: It is very dumb to keep asking for\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question was a fair one. If AI is making Meta&#8217;s engineers measurably faster, could some of that saved time come back to the people doing the work? At a July Q&amp;A, one employee asked whether the productivity gains might fund a revival of Meta Days, the pandemic-era perk that added an extra day off to four long holiday weekends until it was scrapped in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bosworth, Meta&#8217;s chief technology officer, shut it down on the spot. &#8220;Stop asking about Meta Days. It&#8217;s very dumb,&#8221; he said, per Business Insider, which spoke to three people on the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question was a fair one. If AI is making Meta&#8217;s engineers measurably faster, could some of that saved time come back to the people doing the work? At a July Q&amp;A, one employee asked whether the productivity gains might fund a revival of Meta Days, the pandemic-era perk that added an extra day off to four long holiday weekends until it was scrapped in 2022. Andrew Bosworth, Meta&#8217;s chief technology officer, shut it down on the spot. &#8220;Stop asking about Meta Days. It&#8217;s very dumb,&#8221; he said, per Business Insider, which spoke to three people on the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028356,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028354\/revisions\/1028356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}