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Will AI replace Internet of Things Engineer jobs? · Latest report #yhptdrw9
Your job has an expiration date
December 30, 2028
In 2 years, 2 monthsYou build complex bridges for devices that just want to talk.
Professional wrangler of fickle smart-light firmwares.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Standardising chaos into pure data streams.






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autoprovisions thousands of sensors instantly
You wire sensors to networks and patch firmware bugs. You fix connectivity gaps between cheap silicon and cloud servers.
The one thing AI can't do
You know exactly which obscure legacy protocol makes the entire sensor array crash.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Unified standards eliminate your need to manage twelve conflicting communication protocols.
Month 4
Mesh networks now detect and repair their own routing failures.
Month 8
Devices now handshake and secure their own connections automatically.
Month 17
AI models generate and test patches across all device hardware variants.
Year 2.2 · D-Day
The system monitors itself and you are officially disconnected.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96%
99.99 percent
Average connectivity uptime
12 weekly
Hours spent debugging MQTT
4 percent
Firmware update failures
Your severance
A box of discontinued sensors and a pat.
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