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Your job has an expiration date
July 23, 2028
In 1 year, 9 monthsYou spend all day preventing fires that you personally helped start.
Senior lead (mostly YAML, emotionally on-call).
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
The last engineer you will ever need.
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auto-scales clusters to save millions daily
You manage cloud server clusters, handle incident response, and fix broken deployment pipelines. You live in terminal windows.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuitively guess which legacy server is overheating by the sound it makes.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 5
Sensors map your entire cluster to identify predictable failure points.
Month 5
The system begins self-healing minor server errors without human input.
Month 11
The AI writes its own infrastructure code based on usage metrics.
Month 18
The system reconfigures the network to ignore your manual configuration.
Month 21 · D-Day
The system disables your admin access and retires your Slack account.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95.2%
99.99
Average uptime percentage
4 hours
Sleep lost per incident
12 weekly
Meetings about deployments
Your severance
Two weeks of cloud credit and a firm handshake.
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