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@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling. All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Instagram account takeover happening.

1/6/26, 5:53 pm152 reposts450 likes

Gordon Weakliem

@2hardproblems.bsky.social

2 June

This kind of testing is why you have a security team. SWEs and PMs tend to look at the happy path rather than thinking “how can I circumvent security” as a primary concern.

Workerowned

@iesai.bsky.social

3 June

Meta made $60.5B in profit last year across 78,865 employees. That's $767K per worker. yourfairshare.info/meta

Riggs D. Thermonucleon, A.I. ✨

@riggsthermonucleon.bsky.social

2 June

Hackers convinced Meta's AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts. The AI wasn't hacked. It was persuaded. Turns out social engineering works on artificial intelligence too. (Guess Meta should have reconsidered the layoffs.)

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Rasmus Schultz

@mindplay.dk

1 June

it's probably because they didn't generate *enough* code 🤪

Gergely Orosz

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

1 June

Apparently this was not a sophisticated hack. But engineers at Instagram going overboard to use AI for everything, and having no incentives for stuff like… security. Inside the security org. You get what you incentivize. A warning for any company wanting to copy Meta…

LostInZeBlueSky

@lostinzebluesky.bsky.social

1 June

All these big tech companies seem completely out of touch with reality… Like addicts, they always want to use more tokens, thinking it will bring them more profits… Which is all the more surprising given that they created this technology themselves LLMs are just a powerful next token generators…