Ask HN: Books for someone who is transitioning from FAANG to finance

2•rallies•52m ago

I 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.

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yepyoukno•34m ago

Read the Anthropics GitHub finance skills files!!!!

How much better a curated knowledge distillation can you ask for?

There are multiple repositories with relevant materials, though this one is most evident.

https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services

Skills aren’t just for LLMs!

rallies•8m ago

this is such a great answer, thanks! printing them out and reading them today

Arbinv•15m ago

I am looking for someone with your background. I have an existing finance content offering and looking to build tools for our audience. Let me know if interested.

rallies•7m ago

Unfortunately we already have a product we're building. Probably can't find any extra time.

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