I worked for FAANG as a software engineer. The company has been pushing us to use more AI in work. At the beginning of 2025, coding by AI was mostly useless, maybe autocomplete some statements, required a lot manual correction. By end of 2025, it could do about half my work by creating very complex structure that worked with context containing millions of lines of code. What used to take me weeks of work now can be done in days. The improvement in productivity is not only real, but huge.
In only 12 months, AI coding has grown from a middle school student to a software engineer with at least a few years experience. I still have a job because AI still doesn't know 'what' to code, rather than 'how' to code. But with such kinda of growth, I have no idea whether it'll come for my job in another 12 months.
For those out of tech industry, most of your experience with AI are still via chatbot or grammar correction, or document summarization, or creating some funny videos. But AI can be much much more scary than that. I feel scared to even imagine how the world will look like 3 years later. Without some kind of protection, 80% of white collar jobs will be wiped out. For people who think AI is a bubble, you will change your mind seeing how it does our job with first hand experience.
This is a stock subreddit so I've been thinking how to benefit from this era. A natural thought was NVDA, GOOG, MU, TSM. But they all feel weak lately. I will still hold GOOG, but would like to learn more ideas from this sub.