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December 10, 2027
In 14 monthsYou build pipelines to nowhere while pretending the data is clean.
Lead Data Engineer (currently debugging a nightmare of legacy SQL)
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Data flow without the fragile human bottleneck.
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autocorrects corrupt data streams in real time
You wire up complex data pipelines and manage database infrastructure. You fix broken schemas when they inevitably implode.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still explain why the business logic makes no sense to a human.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 3
Smart agents detect and fix broken column types without your input.
Month 4
Code agents rewrite failing ETL scripts during midnight outages.
Month 7
LLMs translate business requests directly into warehouse queries.
Month 11
Cloud orchestration manages the scaling of data clusters automatically.
Month 14 · D-Day
The system disables your access and pushes your final commit.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95%
99.999% ideal
Pipeline uptime
Automated
Schema maintenance
Zero
Coffee consumed
Your severance
A decommissioned hard drive and a firm handshake.
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