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May 25, 2028
In 1 year, 7 monthsSolving problems the computer created in the first place.
Staff engineer, professional architect of future technical debt.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
System design that never needs a sabbatical.
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refactors entire monoliths while you sleep
You draft complex system architectures and debug distributed service failures. You write code that forces other people's code to work.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain to the business why the entire build broke at 3am.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Smart bots start drafting your boilerplate functions and unit tests.
Month 5
Sensors detect and fix production outages before you get the alert.
Month 10
Algorithms map your dependencies and suggest more efficient data flows.
Month 15
Code is verified by formal logic tools instead of your eyes.
Month 19 · D-Day
The system self-optimizes, leaving you with no code to gatekeep.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96%
45 minutes
Average latency in meetings
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Lines of code per year
forever
Time spent arguing about mocks
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