1. 🌍 Software Eats the World
In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley legend and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, wrote an article “Why Software Is Eating the World” 🖥️. Even then, he noticed that software had become the main driving force of the economy and was pushing out traditional professions. And this trend is only accelerating.
Computers, the internet, and mobile apps have changed the familiar order of things. Some people found themselves out of work because of technology, while others built entire fortunes 💰. All of this is a normal story for times of change. Farmers once left the fields, machines replaced factory workers, and now, in place of huge accounting departments, there is one specialist with 1C and automation skills.
Technology consistently increases labor productivity 📈. Machines and robots eliminate routine, and “smart” software increases demand for competent specialists who know how to operate this equipment and create new services. One professional with modern tools 🛠️ can replace a dozen employees from the previous generation—and earn many times more. The result: services become cheaper, businesses become more profitable, and specialists become more valuable.
Such technological booms happen regularly: recently it was cryptocurrency, and now it is artificial intelligence. And if you didn’t manage to buy bitcoin for $1, you won’t have to wait long for the next chance: the new wave has already begun 🚀!
2. 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has been created ✅. In the fall of 2022, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT 3.5. And the world will never be the same again.
This AI easily passed the Turing test. It can play chess at grandmaster level ♟️, and it passed exams at the most prestigious universities 🎓. And every six months, its capabilities double. That is good news. Welcome to the future.
The biggest tech companies have joined the AI race 🏁. Demand for AI specialists is growing at a crazy pace. Microsoft is going to spend $100 billion on building data centers for AI training alone. Other tech companies are not falling behind either. Right now, there is fierce competition among IT giants for everything related to AI: servers, data centers, specialists, scientists.
This is interesting. Facebook has started a real hunt for top AI programmers 🎯. In the summer of 2025, it hired several real superstars:
- Poached Zhuomin Pang from Apple for $250 million;
- Poached Alexander Wang from Scale AI for $200 million;
- Poached Trapita Banzal from OpenAI for $100 million;
- Poached Nat Friedman from GitHub for $100 million;
- Poached Daniel Gross from Safe Superintelligence for $50 million;
All of these specialists were invited to Meta on record-breaking terms 🏅—even many corporate executives have never seen contracts and bonuses like these. Right now, the fight for AI talent is a real “arms race,” and Meta decided to play big.
3. 🧐 How will this affect you?
The news is actually great 😎. First, it has already become clear how the AI business will develop. Apparently, AI companies will provide AI-as-a-service: that is, they will not try to push all competitors out of the market; instead, they will simply become AI contractors 🤝.
Second, any revolution, including a technological one, is an opportunity to build a career quickly. “If you can’t stop it, lead it!” So ignoring the AI revolution is unwise ❌; the smart move is to join ✔️. Even better is to be among the first.
A human + AI will replace a human without AI. Just as a person with a spear beat a person with a stick, a person with a gun 🔫 beat a person with a spear, and so on. Artificial intelligence will greatly increase the productivity of people who know how to work with it. And such specialists will be needed everywhere 🌐.
And third. In the next decade, a ton of products and internet services 🌱 will appear that will make ordinary people’s work better, faster, and cheaper. This will move the global economy to a new level 🚩.
Undoubtedly, these companies will need top specialists who can use AI to create products that, together with AI, will deliver services. You need to become that person.
4. 🌑 “You were supposed to fight evil, not join it”
Will AI replace programmers? No. Quite the opposite 😈. Programmers, with the help of AI, will replace all other professions. The last profession to disappear will be the programmer 😛.
Come to the dark side. The dark side of AI is a pathway to abilities some consider to be unnatural…