Meta’s new AI team has 50 engineers per boss. What could go wrong?

There are flat organizational structures, and then there’s Meta’s new applied AI engineering team. The division, tasked with advancing the tech giant’s superintelligence efforts, will employ a 50-to-1 employee-to-manager ratio, according to the Wall Street Journal, double the 25-to-1 ratio that is usually seen as the outer limit of the so-called span‑of‑control scale. 

The Facebook parent’s one-sided management ratio took aback even those well-versed in flat organizations. “It’s going...