I was Facebook's youngest engineer at 17. I left Meta at a moment when AI's lead can change every few months.

Michael Sayman

Michael Sayman

• Michael Sayman taught himself to code at 13 after his family was evicted during the recession.
• The former Meta executive says AI is shrinking the gap between one builder and a full team.
• Sayman left Meta's Superintelligence Labs for Whop, betting this is another App Store moment.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Sayman, 29, a former Meta product executive who left the company's Superintelligence Labs...