Know before your role does.
pssst. this is to sign up for updates on the game ;)
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April 14, 2028
In 1 year, 6 monthsYou spend all day writing glue that will soon glue itself.
Junior-mid API builder, lover of JSON schemas and stress.
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autogenerates complete documentation while you sleep
Designing, building, and maintaining RESTful endpoints while debugging complex integration failures between disparately architected data systems.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuit why a legacy payload fails in a bizarre edge case.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Smart agents convert your manual designs into rigid machine-readable schemas.
Month 4
Routing layers now self-configure based on incoming traffic patterns.
Month 8
Models detect schema drifts and rewrite integration logic instantly.
Month 13
Security protocols manage their own tokens without human token-wrangling.
Month 18 · D-Day
The system replaces itself; you are invited to leave the network.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.7%
42.0
Average latency in ms
12
Endpoints per week
99%
Meaningless documentation updates
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