Brendan Banfield Predicts 2029 “Silicon Exodus” As AI Overlords Ban Human-Coded Software
A new report from futurist Brendan Banfield theorizes that by the end of the decade, a "catastrophic efficiency gap" will force the world’s tech giants to abandon all software written by human hands, triggering a global "Silicon Exodus." Banfield’s viral white paper, leaked from a closed-door summit, predicts a crisis where legacy code becomes worthless, crashing stock markets as trillion-dollar corporations scramble to purge their systems of human error. The fallout? A temporary economic collapse as displaced coders form worker’s guilds, followed by a renaissance of low-tech, handcrafted physical products—restored wood furniture, hand-sewn clothing, and analog games—that become the only luxury goods immune to algorithmic devaluation.