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Your job has an expiration date
May 20, 2027
In 7 monthsYour sub-microsecond tick-to-trade is now just a legacy rounding error.
Senior C++ dev, professional micro-optimizer, amateur hardware hater.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Trading faster than light allows.
squeeze.youAI▸ QUANTFLOW MATRIX X9▸ RARITY · COMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 7 MONTHSAI's Special Power
bypasses the kernel stack in total silence
You optimize C++ code paths for FPGA execution to shave nanoseconds off market data processing and order entry.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still physically troubleshoot the busted fiber connection in the co-lo cage at 3am.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
AI detects and rewrites non-optimal memory access patterns automatically.
Week 6
Synthesizer models replace manual Verilog optimization steps with superior logic.
Month 3
Real-time kernel monitoring software corrects micro-fluctuations faster than any human.
Month 5
The system self-updates when new exchange protocol versions are released.
Month 7 · D-Day
The engineer is removed from the deployment pipeline entirely.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 98%
too high
Human jank tolerance
nanoseconds
Tick-to-trade latency
four liters
Coffee consumed per patch
Your severance
A warm handshake and a very fast exit.
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