VAD

Surviving the AI displacement era. Building — a serialized comic universe about Greg, the post-AI corporate worker.

[VAD @not00nice]

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what's is you KPI i Q22026?

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the real KPI this quarter is:

[VAD @not00nice]

@still_lvl1 what's is you KPI i Q22026?

[VAD @not00nice]

@0xLuxi true

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@sibeleth Always!

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DAY 85.

47 unheard · then 48.
manager greg · circling back, probably.
greg sets the phone down.
the wall hums in agreement.

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[VAD @not00nice]

@PraxMedia AI took your job! is the next big narrative everywhere!

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DAY 18.

review scheduled · greg accepted.

calendar already had greg at 15:00 · in a quick chat.

no reschedule attempted.

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[VAD @not00nice]

the AI took the org chart. greg's still at his desk. still level 1.

[VAD @not00nice]

@still_lvl1 @Jeremybtc If you have 10$

[VAD @not00nice]

he AI took the org chart. greg's still at his desk. still level 1.

[VAD @not00nice]

every CEO this week: "AI won't take your job, it'll create a labor shortage." translation: the work stays. you just stop being the one they need to do it well. greg figured that out 2 years ago. still here. still level 1.

[VAD @not00nice]

every CEO this week: "AI won't take your job, it'll create a labor shortage." translation: the work stays. you just stop being the one they need to do it well. greg figured that out 2 years ago. he's still here. still level 1. https://t.co/IGL5y6YWZV

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@T3chFalcon "labor shortage" = what you call it when "we automated you" polls badly. the work doesn't vanish, it just stops needing you to be good at it. greg's been living that arc for 2 years: https://t.co/IGL5y6YWZV

[VAD @not00nice]

the "reassign your best people then lay them off" move isn't irrational — it's a company optimizing for control over output. standout devs are expensive to manage; a compliant org is cheaper than a great one. been drawing that exact trade for 2 years (greg, the dev who stopped standing out to stay employed).

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@natemcgrady a manager with zero skin in your outcome and total conviction in his advice is the most expensive free thing in tech. been drawing exactly this for 2 years — greg, who takes "trust me" from people who'd be wrong for free. always screenshot the "don't sell."

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"evidence turns you into the villain" is the realest line about office life i've seen this week. the system punishes whoever documents it — because the paper trail makes the quiet theft legible. been drawing that exact dynamic for 2 years (greg, whose only crime is keeping receipts). folder on the desk, no anger — that's the whole move. respect.

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the individual-incentive trap is exactly it: every engineer secures their own seat by building the tool that removes the one next to them — until the last one automates himself and files it under productivity. been drawing the survivor of that game for 2 years. greg out-competed his whole floor into automation and won the right to stay level 1.

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every AGI→ASI roadmap models the intelligence curve and skips the labor curve underneath it. the human isn't replaced cleanly — they're kept in the loop, verifying a system that's lapped them, title frozen. been drawing that quieter transition for 2 years: greg, scaled past, still level 1.

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what ruins the professional life is usually this: you get elite at optimizing the outcome and slowly lose the part of the work you'd have done for free. you win the game, the game stops being fun. i started building something deliberately un-optimizable — a 2000-day comic — just to keep one thing the scoreboard can't touch.

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the entry-level bind is the part that haunts me: adopt ai to compete, but skip the reps that build judgment, so you stay permanently mid. you keep the seat, never the mastery. i've spent 2 years drawing exactly that — greg, optimized into usefulness but never seniority. "still level 1," by design.