about this book
This book will help you navigate the AI revolution, using AI effectively in your work and making sure your job won’t be replaced by AI. The book was primarily written for software engineers, but its content was designed to be accessible to other audiences, too. So, there are no prerequisites to read this book, and anyone should be able to understand it. It is helpful, however, to know the basics of coding and math to fully understand all the examples.
The book starts with a plain-English overview of how AI works. It then covers a wide range of timely and controversial AI-related topics such as hallucinations, the future of work, and copyright.
Who should read this book?
Two main groups of people should read this book. The first one is software engineers—aspiring, novice, and seasoned ones—who want to understand the effects of AI on their careers and prepare for it.
The second group includes people related to or interested in the software industry, even if they’re not engineers themselves. For example, these are product managers and startup entrepreneurs. One of this book’s reviewers said he thought the book would be useful not just for software engineers but also for “software sympathizers,” which I thought was a good way to put it.
How this book is organized: A road map
The book is divided into six chapters: