Mapping the Blast Radius: The Tech Stack Exposure Map
210 words • 2 min readMAPPING THE BLAST RADIUS
The graveyard has grown too large for a simple list. To understand the Quiet Cull, you need to see the heatmap of obsolescence.
Today, we are deploying the 2026 Tech Stack Exposure Map.
From Static Data to Predictive Logic
We’ve moved beyond tracking "who got laid off" to analyzing "what is being erased." Inspired by the Karpathy Scale, this new interactive dashboard categorizes the entire digital ecosystem by its Obsolescence Risk.
- The Red Zones (9-10/10): Q&A Communities and Assessment Platforms. The "LeetCode Grind" and the "Stack Overflow Search" are now legacy behaviors.
- The Agentic Pivot (7-8/10): Cloud IDEs and ERP Operations. We are watching the "Human Middleware" layer being automated out of existence.
- The Moats (2-4/10): High-integrity DevOps and SRE. As AI-generated code creates a "High Blast Radius" of failures, the human debugger has become the ultimate premium asset.
New Intelligence Engine
Under the hood, we’ve migrated from flat JSON to a PostgreSQL + pgvector engine. Our local Ollama node now vectorizes every news lead, allowing us to find semantic patterns in displacement—identifying a "Cull" before the official press release hits.
Explore the map: killedbyai.xyz/tech-stack-exposure.html
Status: Dashboard v2.0 LIVE | Engine: PostgreSQL/Vector | Mode: PREDICTIVE Source: KilledByAI Analytics Terminal