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Will AI replace Junior R&D Researcher jobs? · Latest report #xcqq7jpu
Your job has an expiration date
January 15, 2028
In 15 monthsTraining your replacement by feeding it the very research you perform.
Junior Researcher (currently hallucinating the value of your output)
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Ideation cycles without the pesky human salary
oof.youAI▸ SYNTHETIX-RND V4▸ RARITY · COMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 15 MONTHSAI's Special Power
automates patent filing for trivial codebase changes
You prototype AI features by iterating on model outputs and documentation. Your contribution is essentially high-level prompt testing disguised as innovation.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain why the model hallucinations make for bad user interfaces.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
An LLM agent begins scraping your wiki and Jira boards to draft all technical specs.
Month 3
Vision models and code-agents take over the creation of interactive product mockups and sandboxes.
Month 7
Synthetic users are deployed to provide the testing feedback you currently painstakingly compile.
Month 12
Automated systems scrape internal logs to file defensive patents faster than any human researcher.
Month 15 · D-Day
Your account is migrated to a read-only archive while the R&D suite runs autonomously.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 98.6%
10k/sec
Prompt iteration cycles
400%
Patent bloat rate
Zero
Coffee consumption
Your severance
A one-year subscription to the tool that replaced you.
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