Meta shares Forum's AI-native engineering practices
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An October 16 report described the AI-native engineering behind Meta's Forum app. The team had AI agents take part in planning, implementation, testing and verification, and a small team matched the core features of Facebook Groups in eight weeks. To let agents do the work, the team gave them readable app state and used automated verification and build isolation. The report also says engineers were still needed to iterate at some stages, and every shipped result was signed off by an engineer, so agent involvement did not remove human confirmation.
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Meta used AI agents in Forum's planning, implementation, testing and verification, and a small team reached parity with Facebook Groups' core features in 8 weeks. The team supported agent work with readable app state, automated verification and build isolation. Engineers still joined some stages to iterate, and signed off on every shipped result.
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