A few years ago I gave up on my personal website because I could not fix some weird bug with git commands; yesterday I shipped full-fledged reporting for a product with backend, frontend and telegram alerts, and I still know only basics. Applied to my career in marketing/growth, this always felt inevitable: large parts of work will be carried away by automation and the job is to be worth more than what's left.

Early 2026, we've built glypticon.com as a tool to answer a question nobody can answer. Simple landing page, 8 fields form, 3 academic frameworks to identify how your job will change exactly in the next few years. And a single number as an output: when your career will be disrupted. Meta Ads on the US audience and 5k people reached with 60 seeing their career countdown number.

Sitting on my sofa, I watched session recordings from PostHog, noticing how Engineering Managers, Sales Directors and Clinical Applications Professionals get large red numbers: "June 2028, this is when your role will be significantly restructured". Some saw the number after 90 seconds of skills mapping python code and LLM APIs rustling in the background, and then dropped immediately. Some read all the complicated narrative, re-read, came back several times to the beginning. Two of them even ran the analysis twice, changing the job title, in hopes to see different headline number, but to no avail.

Laptop was pushing fans on max, my knees were struggling with extensive heat, and my mind was wandering somewhere else. A friend's wife tested it and shared voice note, saying directly that the analysis on her profile as a tech worker made her feel like shit. She would not come back, but there was nothing to come back to: only one number and numbing silence. She remembered a lot of red text emphasizing what was going away. She didn't recall any positives. The product told her the job is disappearing in a couple of years and offered no salvation.

This was not what I actually accounted for. I am more on excitement side. What is missing now is the meaning: I've tried to find it through pure cognition, reading thousands of words on robotics, autonomous weapons, autonomous vehicles. Modern warfare moral implications. LiDAR cost structure deep dives.

I went down into the rabbit hole; 17 deep research chats on finances after, late evening, I was running Monte Carlo simulations on my laptop, exploring how my profile of "growth manager in Berlin" would survive. Even though the world's volatility is high it said I have 100% chance of surviving economic shock; I will be fine. Glypticon gave strangers a red number and no meaning. My simulation gave me a green one, and no meaning either. I just tried to shield myself from daily volatility and the sense that singularity is near.

Waymo accumulated years of iterations in Arizona, and then, all at once, they started launching new cities every few months. No one handed over prediction and promise to the Waymo team. The bottleneck was never the technology itself. It was a human who knew when to stay and commit before clarity on what to do arrived.

I knew what to do and the knowing has stopped helping me.