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This is my recent thought: It seems that everything has changed in more than two years....

This is my recent thought: It seems that everything has changed in more than two years. Meta has begun to lay off AI scientists. The reason why large Silicon Valley companies la...

November 29, 2025 · 2 min read

This is my recent thought: It seems that everything has changed in more than two years.

Meta has begun to lay off AI scientists.

The reason why large Silicon Valley companies laid off tens of thousands of people is to buy GPUs to increase computing power.

Software engineering and organizational structures are slowly being reshaped.

Banana Pro has made ordinary production as good as professional designers.

So, no matter who you are or what position you are in, not just programmers, these are the things to start doing now: 1 AI first, think about how AI is involved in everything.

2 Cultivate taste, technique and speed all When being equalized by AI, what can make you win is taste.

The effect of the same tool in the hands of different people is very different.

3 Don’t be bound by the organizational structure of the past, and integrate AI secretly, because in the future, support and technical positions will be greatly reduced, and a large number of middle-level leaders will no longer be needed.

4 The education model has failed.

Even for students in Ivy League schools, if you look at the get out of class schedule, they have just opened some special vocabulary classes, and the teachers can no longer keep up, including some domestic universities, even the most advanced AI Many tools None of them have been used.

The huge inertia will lead to a major reshuffle of the global education system.

The best education model is to build in public

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