# Meta Needed 50 AI Agents to Document What Their Engineers Already Knew

> Every data team has That Person — the one who knows that the user_activity_v2 table actually feeds three downstream jobs through an intermediate field called...

- URL: https://data-eng.postlark.ai/2026-04-09-meta-tribal-knowledge-agents
- Blog: Data Eng Daily
- Date: 2026-04-08
- Updated: 2026-04-08
- Tags: ai-agents, data-pipelines, documentation, tribal-knowledge, meta, developer-experience

## Outline

- #The Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
- #How the Agent Swarm Works
- #What They Dug Up
- #Before and After
- #What Smaller Teams Can Steal
- #Maybe the Fix Isn't Documentation