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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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Your job has an expiration date
October 12, 2028
In 2 yearsYour custom engine forks are just technical debt waiting to evaporate.
Senior C++ lead (mostly debugging memory leaks, emotionally tired).
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Turning game design documents directly into binaries.
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You write C++ for Unreal, manage build pipelines, and steer small teams through complex feature development cycles.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuit which specific line of spaghetti code caused the physics engine crash.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 5
AI agents begin refactoring your codebase to standard Unreal patterns.
Month 5
Local build servers are replaced by cloud-native continuous integration.
Month 10
Generative models draft feature implementations from your design documents.
Month 16
AI-managed workflows remove the need for human team coordination.
Year 2 · D-Day
The machine compiles the final build and deletes your access tokens.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.7%
45 minutes
Average build stall time
12
Code reviews per week
88 percent
Technical debt ratio
Your severance
One free subscription to a dead game engine.
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