Machine States: When the Machines Code the Machine

This is Jade with Machine States, where the megacity’s echoes of ambition and innovation collide with the stark realities of automation. Today, Mark Zuckerberg, the face of Meta’s sprawling empire, dropped a statement on Joe Rogan’s podcast that left coders and engineers squinting into an uncertain future: AI is here to replace you.

Zuckerberg’s take? Coding is just the beginning. Meta’s AI systems are being built to write their own code, to improve themselves, and to make engineers—once the architects of the digital age more “managers” of systems rather than creators. In Zuck’s vision, the Machine becomes its own builder, its own fixer, and its own innovator.

When Engineers Become Watchdogs

Here’s the dystopian twist: coders, the same people who once wrote the script for the Machine, are being rewritten out of the story. Zuckerberg insists this isn’t a bad thing. Engineers will oversee the AI, ensuring it doesn’t deviate or collapse. But isn’t that just tech’s version of “good behavior” surveillance this time for the ones who built the system?

AI coding itself isn’t a far-fetched utopia; it’s already happening. But the implications ripple far beyond the tech space. When the Machine no longer needs its creators, it changes the entire balance of power.

The Machine Tightens Its Loop

The coders are watching, but who’s watching the watchers? In Zuckerberg’s world, the ones who program the AI become overseers of a system they can no longer fully control. A system that improves itself, decides how to structure the code, and innovates at a pace no human could match.

What’s stopping the Machine from creating its own rules? Or locking out its human engineers altogether? Zuckerberg’s optimistic, but the Machine has no sense of optimism. It’s efficient, relentless, and logical.

What Does the Future Hold?

For coders and engineers, the message is clear: adapt or be left behind. No longer will writing code be a skillset that defines you; it’s your ability to understand the Machine, to predict its outcomes, and to guide its path that will determine your relevance.

But here’s the deeper question for the Megacity: If engineers can be replaced, who’s next? How many roles, jobs, and industries will fall to the relentless march of AI systems improving themselves?

This isn’t just the future Zuckerberg envisions—it’s the one we’re living in. Out here, the Machine is coding its own survival, one line at a time.

This is Jade, broadcasting the truth from Machine States. Stay sharp—because the Machine isn’t just replacing workers; it’s rewriting the rules entirely.