I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)
jagilley.github.ioAbout four years of total industry experience, split across two very different work domains, in what sounds like one organization.
I can't make an honest guess about whether their actual job will be "automated" or otherwise made redundant in the next year, as they suggest. Maybe they're right that they've been doing easily automatable work for these few years.
But I can question whether they have nearly enough insight, exposure, or experience for their personal anxiety to speak to the future of industry at large, to the future of FAANG's in general, or even to the future of their own "FAANGco"
I hope them the best in their personal decisions, but I wonder if they're getting a little over their skis here.
>Maybe they're right that they've been doing easily automatable work for these few years.
It makes sense if this is the case, he might have even anticipated being hit by the next wave of layoffs and quitted early
The closing:
> So the next step in my career is going to be talking to people about great AI products that are being built and helping them figure out if they'd find these products useful. If you're building a great product and would like somebody to tell people about it, please don't hesitate to reach out!
So, the blog post up to that point, about how AI will wipe out jobs, could be an audition for selling AI products to businesses.
If you’re replaced by robots, build robots.
The author is hyping up AI, including making people redundant, only to reveal at the end that he is going into AI sales.
Olympic level acrobatics.
Am I the only one that thinks that being "agent wrangler" actually makes building things more fun?
To me, the interesting parts in building is taking a real problem, mapping it to a set of "things" that need to be built, decompose them into treatable chunks, and defining how they should interact. This is where intelligence comes in. if agents want to take the rest, please do! I can focus on making better products.
Sitting around, watching claude-code 'think', hitting y, hitting enter, adding a little prompt context, giving it hints, etc, day after day, hour after hour. So exciting.
You and literally everyone else. If ideas are "a dime a dozen", and the hard part (aka building the implementation) is trivially solved by LLMs then it won't be you competing against a handful of similar businesses, it'll be you against TEN THOUSAND.
The ultimate end result of lowering the barrier to entry down to zero is that making money on bespoke software will be about as commercially viable as making money writing music.
Sounds like a win for humanity to me.
Writing software was always that, automating yours or (more likely) someone else's job away.
No, I love it. It has made programming fun again and lets me focus on the creative parts. Really satisfying.
This was my thought too. The idea of wrangling AIs to make something is only lame or tragic if you dont like the thing youre making. For people who have ideas that they actually care about and just want to see exist, wrangling ai's sounds great, as long as their output is good
This a million times over. Although demand for this layer of jobs will obviously be hugely squeezed in this future we are all discussing.
Me too!
I get it that coding is like playing boardgames and that might be fun.
But solving real problems (with the help of AI or whatever other tool is most appropriate, maybe and IDE or a degugger) is where I want to be!
Oh no. This author appears to have imagined some kool aid to drink.
No one's job is actively going away. What's happening is job-role compression - no longer are there "pure coder" roles. You can think of it the same way as there's no longer an IT team in the depths of the company - nowadays the company has many SaaS products strung together with APIs, and the office manager is part-time IT as one of their many roles. They do point-and-click to perform onboarding/offboarding etc. - in the same morning they might onboard a new employee, then go restock the kitchen.
In software the roughly-equivalent outcome is a decrease in deeply technical work (and especially a decrease to produce CRUD apps). But no change in the human-to-human work to uncover what actually needs to be built. So you're no longer a "programmer" or even "software engineer", you're now a "full stack product manager".
It's a continuation of a trend where less "sit-and-type" is needed to get to value. Think of how simple kubernetes and similar infra makes it to implement horizontally scalable, stateless web apps. As the "sit-and-type" ratio changes, the value you can generate by being good at deciding what to build increases!
As always, if you want a durable job, hone 2 skillsets: get good at talking to people about what they need, while simultaneously keeping up with trends such as LLMs so you can keep on guiding the computer to produce what is needed.
Seems like jasper didn't contribute much
Someone had to be fired to convince investors they are really replacing developers with "AI".
Narrator: that is not why Jasper really quit Apple. Especially at Apple, no one will automate his job "by the end of the year", or in the foreseeable future.
turning this into an episode of Arrested Development is apropos on how over the top this whole AI/LLM hype train has become
Why is this flagged? Seems like a reasonable take and not obviously spammy to me. Maybe overly optimistic about AI progress, but that’s debatable.
Because there's an AI sales pitch at the end.
This is the year for Linux in the desktop^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwhen AI replaces you.
why quit your job, when you can maximize whatever money is given to you.
youtube clickbait ass title. "quit my FAANG job because of ai" no you didnt dog
Another one falling for a modern Pascal's wager and making poor decisions or simply posting something that sounds cool to cover a big L.
It's the new self-driving, but for programmers.
When I started my career 20 years ago, I thought "they" would figure out how to get a computer to do my job pretty soon. Coders are expensive after all. And I figured I'd just go walk into the woods or something after that; I had no plan for what to do. This is the only thing I'm good at and can make money doing.
Well, it's been 20 years and it hasn't happened yet. Perhaps this will be the year! But not yet.