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Will AI replace Head Of Machine Development jobs? · Latest report #jrzhg223
Your job has an expiration date
October 22, 2028
In 2 yearsYou design machines that will eventually decide you are the bottleneck.
Still thinks the hardware is the hard part.
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You oversee complex mechanical engineering projects, lead lab teams, manage R&D budgets, and pivot development based on test results.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuitively guess which specific bolt is rattling before the sensor catches it.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Sensors map your every design decision into a giant database.
Month 5
The AI runs thousands of CAD iterations without you sleeping.
Month 10
Software orders parts directly from factories without your sign-off.
Month 15
Algorithms approve engineering designs in milliseconds instead of weeks.
Month 20
Robot cells build the next generation of robots independently.
Year 2 · D-Day
Your access card no longer opens the lab entrance.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95.2%
400 litres
Coffee consumed per project
12 weekly
Meetings about machine vision bugs
99 percent
Time spent explaining hardware to HR
Your severance
A lifetime subscription to our R&D simulator software.
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