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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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pssst. this is to sign up for updates on the game ;)
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Your job has an expiration date
April 20, 2028
In 1 year, 6 monthsYou are just a glorified janitor for broken SQL pipelines.
Professional firefighter of SQL tables and lost rows.
Check another roleComment your opinionor JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
One human is building a game about fighting back.
Cleaning your lake so you do not have to.
bzzt.youAI▸ DATASWEEPER V9▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 1 YEAR, 6 MONTHSAI's Special Power
patches database schema before crash occurs
You spend days fighting database corruption and writing scripts to clean up messy, unformatted data streams.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain why the production database crashed at 3am to a non-technical manager.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
AI agents begin filtering your 3 a.m. pager alerts.
Month 4
Scripts auto-detect and fix common schema drift errors.
Month 8
New interfaces allow developers to ignore your underlying plumbing.
Month 13
Smart clusters automatically rebalance shards without human help.
Month 18 · D-Day
The system monitors itself and you are officially redundant.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.4%
99% misery
Average uptime alert fatigue
40 weekly
Hours spent fixing broken schema
12 critical
Pipeline failures per shift
Your severance
One free SQL course for your next pivot.
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