{"slug": "ask-hn-books-for-someone-who-is-transitioning-from-faang-to-finance", "title": "Ask HN: Books for someone who is transitioning from FAANG to finance", "summary": "A 10-year AI engineer transitioning from FAANG to finance seeks book recommendations and advice for building a B2C product in net worth tracking, agentic finance, and LLM-driven investing. The engineer, who has built algo-trading systems on weekends, is moving into full-time finance to launch a consumer-facing product in the space.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||\n2 points by |\nI have been an AI engineer for the last 10 years of my life, and have continued to build small algo-trading systems during my weekends. I'm getting into finance full time and starting to build a product in the net worth tracking / agentic finance / LLM driven investing space (B2C) I would love to read up on as many books as I can just to deeply understand the field, the way things run, etc. Recommendations? Doesn't have to be just books. Would also appreciate any advice.\n| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-books-for-someone-who-is-transitioning-from-faang-to-finance", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342105", "published_at": "2026-05-31 00:57:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-31 01:46:19.281901+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["FAANG", "AI engineer"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-books-for-someone-who-is-transitioning-from-faang-to-finance", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-books-for-someone-who-is-transitioning-from-faang-to-finance.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-books-for-someone-who-is-transitioning-from-faang-to-finance.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-books-for-someone-who-is-transitioning-from-faang-to-finance.jsonld"}}