I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)

I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of 2025 Jasper Gilley March 2025 Until this February, I had gainful employment at [redacted FAANG co] as a Machine Learning Engineer working on fine-tuning LLMs for language translation tasks. It was a great gig, and I enjoyed the work and my coworkers. However, taking a medium-term look at the market dynamics surrounding my employment prompted me to quit a few weeks ago. I'm now convinced that my former job there will be obsolete by the end of the year. Engineering jobs, ca. early 2025 For context — I started my career as a backend engineer at a late-stage startup before transitioning into doing ML work for a few early-stage AI startups and finally for FAANGco. It's wild how much change the industry has already undergone since I started my career <5 years ago in 2021. My first job consisted of taking on atomic tasks in the form of Jira tickets that had been assigned points for difficulty and progressively knocking them out ... Read full article.