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April 14, 2028
In 1 year, 6 monthsYou spend your days fixing code written by people who hated you.
Professional breaker of legacy frameworks and weekend plans.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Modernising legacy messes without the human complaining.
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deletes your entire production database silently
You patch legacy spaghetti code and pray that your database migrations don't destroy the entire production environment.
The one thing AI can't do
You can sense exactly which ancient configuration file will crash the server on Friday.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Smart agents index your entire codebase to find every hidden bug.
Month 4
Refactoring scripts automatically rewrite your spaghetti code into modern standards.
Month 8
Database controllers take over all your manual maintenance tasks.
Month 13
Servers now self-deploy without needing your constant supervision.
Month 18 · D-Day
The system finishes migrating everything and you are no longer needed.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96%
400 daily
Average stack traces
too much
Time spent in meetings
infinity
Legacy bugs created
Your severance
A one-month subscription to a legacy documentation archive.
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