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Your job has an expiration date
October 21, 2028
In 2 yearsYou spend all day debugging firmware just to realize you missed a semicolon.
Junior Engineer (mostly C, emotionally destroyed by hardware).
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Hardware iteration at the speed of light.
ow.youAI▸ CODEFORGE V.4▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 2 YEARSAI's Special Power
solderless hardware deployment via high-frequency lasers
You write C code for microcontrollers and trace schematics until the board actually powers on.
The one thing AI can't do
You can sense when a board is dead just by looking at the thermal profile.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Month 3
AI starts suggesting fixes for your broken C header files.
Month 8
Software generates board layouts without needing a human to route traces.
Month 13
Agents take over the drudgery of writing endless embedded test cases.
Month 18
Virtual environments replace the need for physical prototype boards.
Year 2 · D-Day
Your access to the repository is revoked, and the machine builds everything.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95.1%
85%
Time spent reading datasheets
5.2
Average cups of coffee
Hourly
Average build failure frequency
Your severance
A one-year supply of high-end capacitors and free coffee.
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