You don’t realize how much you rely on a chat until it disappears. I was two hours into a Python script for the X API — prompts refined, context carefully built across dozens of messages
The $2B headline loss is noise compared to the second-order problem: technical and architectural entanglement. Money is reversible. Systems are not. If Manus had remained a standalone product, Meta could have simply walked away and
The pitch was clean: replace headcount with compute, cut costs, move faster. Nobody stress-tested what happens when the compute bill outgrows the payroll it was supposed to eliminate. That’s where some companies find themselves now.