Meta 2026: Grousing Baby Dinobabies and Paddling Furiously
January 7, 2026
Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.
I am an 81 year old dinobaby. I get a kick out of a baby dinobaby complaining about young wizards. Imagine how that looks to me. A pretend dinobaby with many years to rock and roll complaining about how those “young people” are behaving. What a hoot!
A dinobaby explains to a young, brilliant entrepreneur, “You are clueless.” My response: Yeah, but who has a job? Thanks, Qwen. Good enough.
Why am I thinking about age classification of dinobabies? I read “Former Meta Scientist Says Mark Zuckerberg’s New AI Chief Is ‘Young’ And ‘Inexperienced’—Warns ‘Lot Of People’ Who Haven’t Yet Left Meta ‘Will Leave’.” Now this is a weird newsy story or a story presented as a newsy release by an outfit called Benzinga. I don’t know much about Benzinga. I will assume it is a version of the estimable Wall Street Journal or the more estimable New York Times. With that nod to excellence in mind, what is this write up about?
Answer: A staff change and what I call departure grief. People may hate their job. However, when booted from that job, a problem looms. No matter how important a person’s family, no matter how many technical accolades a person has accrued, and no matter the sense of self worth — the newly RIFed, terminated, departed, or fired feels bad.
Many Xooglers fume online after losing their status as Googlers. These essays are amusing to me. Then when Mother Google kicks them out of the quiet pod, the beanbag, or the table tennis room — these people fume. I think that’s what this Benzinga “zinger” of a write up conveys.
Let’s take a quick look, shall we?
First, the write up reports that the French-born Yann LeCun is allegedly 65 years old. I noted this passage about Alexandr [sic] Wang is the top dog in Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL) or “MISSILE” I assume. That’s quite a metaphor. Missiles are directed or autonomous. Sometimes they work and sometimes they explode at wedding parties in some countries. Whoops. Now what does the baby dinobaby Mr. LeCun say about the 28 year old sprout Alexandr (sic) Wang, founder of Scale AI. Keep in mind that the genius Mark Zuckerberg paid $14 billion dollars for this company in the middle of 2025.
Alexandr Wang is intelligent and learns quickly, but does not yet grasp what attracts — or alienates — top researchers.
Okay, we have a baby dinobaby complaining about the younger generation. Nothing new here except that Mr. Wang is still employed by the genius Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. LeCun is not as far as I know.
Second, the article notes:
According to LeCun, internal confidence eroded after Meta was criticized for allegedly overstating benchmark results tied to Llama 4. He said the controversy angered Zuckerberg and led him to sideline much of Meta’s existing generative AI organization.
And why? According the zinger write up:
LLMs [are] a dead end.
But was Mr. LeCun involved in these LLMs and was he tainted by the failure that appears to have sparked the genius Mark Zuckerberg to pay $14 billion for an indexing and content-centric company? I would assume that the answer is, “Yep, Mr. LeCun was in his role for about 13 years.” And the result of that was a “dead end.”
I would suggest that the former Facebook and Meta employee was not able to get the good ship Facebook and its support boats Instagram and WhatsApp on course despite 156 months of navigation, charting, and inputting.
Several observations:
- Real dinobabies and pretend dinobabies complain. No problem. Are the complaints valid? One must know about the mental wiring of said dinobaby. Young dinobabies may be less mature complainers.
- Geniuses with a lot of money can be problematic. Mr. LeCun may not appreciate the wisdom of this dinobaby’s statement … yet.
- The genius Mr. Zuckerberg is going to spend his way back into contention in the AI race.
Net net: Meta (Facebook) appears to have floundered with the virtual worlds thing and now is paddling furiously as the flood of AI solutions rushes past him. Can geniuses paddle harder or just buy bigger and more powerful boats? Yep, zinger.
Stephen E Arnold, January 7, 2026
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