# Bad Influence story: Meta builds Forum, a standalone Facebook Groups app, with an AI coding agent

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-10 21:10. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/8e2c6a61-372f-4da0-bb7f-cbf975e9f7b6

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Latest update (11-10 21:10): Meta explains how it built Forum with an AI agent that verifies its own work

Overview: Meta's engineering team says it built Forum, a standalone app for Facebook Groups, using an AI agent that plans, builds, tests and corrects its own work. The team says Forum reached core feature parity with Facebook Groups in eight weeks. It also says a stress-testing loop run by the agent roughly halved memory use and page faults. Engineers still approve each release, according to the source.

The source does not disclose the team size, the full feature scope, or whether the system is open source.

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1. 11-10 21:10 · meng shao · [Meta explains how it built Forum with an AI agent that verifies its own work](https://badinfluence.news/items/qjnsro5g4coifsb7igiml1b9g)
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