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Your job has an expiration date
May 25, 2028
In 1 year, 7 monthsYou are just a very expensive translator for Apple documentation.
Staff engineer (mostly Swift, entirely trapped in Xcode).
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Shipping features without the human ego.
brr.you▸ CODEGEN-RETAILER X1▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 1 YEAR, 7 MONTHSAI's Special Power
refactors your entire modular codebase overnight
You write Swift code for shopping apps and waste hours in architectural design reviews. The machine does it faster.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain why the obscure legacy build configuration broke at 3am.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
AI takes over code review to fix your silly syntax mistakes.
Month 5
New models generate your app navigation and API data structures.
Month 10
Virtual devices replace your broken hardware farm for test coverage.
Month 15
Text prompts turn design mockups directly into production SwiftUI code.
Month 19 · D-Day
The machine commits, builds, and pushes directly to the App Store.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.3%
4.5 cups
Coffee per Pull Request
65 percent
Time spent in Jira
99 percent
Uptime of CI pipeline
Your severance
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