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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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Your job has an expiration date
October 22, 2028
In 2 yearsEnjoy balancing your economy while the machine rebalances your career.
Senior Designer (mostly GDDs, chronically under-budgeted)
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Turning player feedback into instant feature updates.
glub.youAI▸ DESIGNENGINE X-9▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 2 YEARSAI's Special Power
autogenerates balanced combat encounters instantly
You draft mechanics, balance loot tables, and write design documents. The engine does it all better now.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuitively feel why a jump feels floaty without checking logs.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 3
Your design docs are ingested to train the next iteration.
Month 4
The AI calculates optimal loot drop rates using player telemetry.
Month 10
Engines build mechanics directly from natural language prompts.
Month 18
Player sentiment analysis drives all balance patches without human input.
Year 2 · D-Day
The studio ships the game without a design department.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95.1%
4 per week
Average feature churn
200 pages
Design document bloat
75 percent
Time spent in meetings
Your severance
A one-year subscription to your own failed game.
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