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Your job has an expiration date
September 1, 2028
In 1 year, 10 monthsEnjoy drawing polygons until the silicon finds a better way.
Silicon whisperer, master of timing closures and long nights.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Routing billions of transistors without the ego.
bzzt.youAI▸ SILICONARCHITECT-V9▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 1 YEAR, 10 MONTHSAI's Special Power
optimizes floorplans while you sleep
You optimize chip floorplans and timing constraints. Your existence is just a rounding error in clock speed.
The one thing AI can't do
You are the only one who truly understands why that weird ground-bounce glitch persists.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
AI checkers automatically flag every trivial DRC violation for you.
Month 5
Vision-guided layout tools start fixing congestion without your constant input.
Month 10
Neural solvers predict and solve setup timing issues before you arrive.
Month 16
The AI writes the scripts that once defined your entire career.
Month 22 · D-Day
The silicon tape-out is fully automated and you are gracefully released.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96%
Excessive
Coffee consumption per yield
Zero (by AI)
Timing violations fixed
Nanoseconds
Years to find a bug
Your severance
A vintage soldering iron and a firm handshake.
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