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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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April 20, 2027
In 6 monthsUpdating scripts that were outdated before you were born.
Still maintaining the internet's literal skeleton.
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refactors spaghetti code into clean containers
You write regex-heavy glue code to bridge legacy systems. You spend your day debugging cryptic one-liners and variable types.
The one thing AI can't do
You are the only person who can explain how that specific script works.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 13
An LLM scans your entire repo to document the madness.
Week 8
Smart agents rewrite your cryptic scripts into readable modern code.
Month 3
The system writes tests to replace your intuition.
Month 5
The new pipeline replaces the manual perl execution environment.
Month 6 · D-Day
Your access is revoked as the automated system goes live.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 97%
4 liters
Coffee consumed per commit
1200
Regex lines per hour
99%
Legacy system uptime
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