Meta Platforms has imposed strict limits on engineers in its Applied AI division on using outside AI coding tools such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, according to reporting based on internal documents. The move appears aimed at reducing dependence on costly external tools while Meta builds its own in-house coding assistant, MetaCode, and guards against the risk that rival model outputs seep into its training data — a practice known as "distillation." According to the reporting, some teams even received internal memos instructing them to pause work that relied on the outside tools.
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