Rumours

Meta’s secret “agent swarm” built on LLaMA is already running product teams, say leakers

A review of the rumour that Meta has deployed a secret Llama-based agent swarm in real production environments.

AI Rumour Watch

29 Nov 2025 — 2 min read

Claim: Meta’s internal “Agent Swarm” uses Llama-based agents to run autonomous production systems.

Verdict: Unproven — no evidence confirms production-level autonomous deployment as described.

Apparently the meetings are still on everyone’s calendar, but the decisions are now being made by a giant invisible Llama hive mind. Sure they are.

The Claim

Anonymous “insider” accounts claim Meta has a secret internal system — an “agent swarm” built on top of Llama — that is already:

– autonomously prioritising roadmaps
– generating product specs
– assigning tickets
– making launch decisions

In other words: entire product teams allegedly report into a pile of YAML and some system prompts.

The Source

As usual, the “proof” is a mix of:

– throwaway Twitter/X accounts with anime avatars claiming to “know a guy at Menlo Park”
– recycled Discord screenshots of alleged “internal dashboards” that could have been mocked up in Figma in 20 minutes
– low-effort tech commentary treating “agentic Meta Llama swarm” as a confirmed product instead of “a thing someone typed while bored”

No internal docs, no credible leaks, no corroborated reporting. Just vibes, diagrams, and buzzwords.

Our Assessment

Is Meta experimenting with agentic workflows on top of Llama?
Very likely. Every large lab and half the YC batch is doing some flavour of “multi-agent orchestration” right now.

Is Meta letting an unsupervised Llama swarm unilaterally:

– set product direction
– overrule managers
– ship features

Absolutely not.

The real story is almost certainly:

– teams are testing internal tools that chain together LLM calls for planning, summarising, and drafting
– outputs are filtered, reviewed, and heavily edited by humans
– anything close to “decision-making” goes through layers of approvals, compliance, and CYA

If you’ve ever worked in a large org, the idea that they’d hand over real decision power to an unproven agent stack is laughable. They can’t even approve new chairs without a committee and a form.

The Signal

What is interesting here:

– Agent workflows are moving from “toy demos” to “serious internal tooling” across big tech
– Teams are trying to turn LLMs into semi-autonomous interns that can:
– draft specs
– summarise research
– propose next steps
– keep Jira from becoming a total graveyard

The rumours overshoot reality, but they point at a real direction:
increasingly structured, tool-using, multi-step systems around LLMs — not magical hive minds, just better glue.

Expect more:

– “we replaced X% of process with agents” blog posts
– startups selling “agent orchestration platforms”
– analysts wildly over-interpreting every internal experiment as “AGI is here”

Verdict

Rumour Status: ❌ Corporate Fanfic
Confidence: 94%

Meta is almost certainly building agentic Llama-based systems to help teams work.
But “the agents are already running product” is just the latest entry in the long, proud tradition of people mistaking slideware and prototypes for a regime change.