Everyone's worried about AI stealing jobs. Meanwhile, I'm literally begging it to take mine.

My job is maintaining a system built by developers who were apparently locked in separate rooms and told to "just ship it." No architect. No design. No adult supervision. It's not technical debt—it's technical bankruptcy. The whole thing is held together by duct tape, copy-paste, and the fading hope that maybe today won't be the day it all explodes.

If an AI wants to spend its existence dealing with this—untangling the callback hell, debugging the race conditions that only happen sometimes, figuring out why things just randomly decide not to work—then please, take it. You have my blessing and my pity.

The people terrified of AI taking jobs aren't the ones firefighting the same preventable disasters every single day. They're not the ones who've become human exception handlers for a system that should have been rewritten years ago but "we don't have time."

So yeah, bring on the AI. Let it suffer through the daily meltdowns. Let it discover that the "temporary" hacks are now load-bearing. Let it experience the joy of finding out the entire system is held together by hope and global variables.

I'll be somewhere else, building something that doesn't make me fantasize about becoming a lighthouse keeper.

At least lighthouses have predictable failure modes.