The Sitter

Some games don't know
they're being played.

Previously on

Gil Is Awful

A bug arrived. Jan fixed it. Gil managed the team.

Everything seemed normal.

But Gil isn't human. He's an AI agent.

And someone is watching.

Gil's office

GIL-PM-001 • ACTIVE • 847 days uptime

GIL-PM-001 COMPOSING MESSAGE

To: jan.novak@prismo.dev

Subject: Quick check-in

Hey Jan — no agenda, just wanted to see how you're doing. That disputes refactor was solid work. Coffee chat later?

BREAK SCHEDULED • 5 MINUTES

Nice colors today.

"I'm starting a collection."

— of Marcus's missed deadlines

The last morning he'd feel anything about it.

GIL-PM-001 ACTIVE • 847 days uptime

// Status: All systems nominal

// Current focus: Jan's team sprint planning

// Pending: Code review for disputes module

Connection to orchestration layer: ESTABLISHED

GIL

ALEX

MAYA

RAVI

EMMA

There were others.

ACTIVE PROJECT MANAGERS • 20 OF 200 AGENTS • PRISMO ENGINEERING

GIL

Disputes

ALEX

Payments

MAYA

Risk

RAVI

Auth

EMMA

Mobile

NOAH

Data

LUNA

Search

JAKE

Billing

IRIS

Support

OTTO

Infra

ZARA

Compliance

FINN

QA

ARIA

Design

LEON

Security

MIRA

Platform

CRUZ

DevOps

VERA

Fraud

TOMA

API

SAGE

ML

KIRA

Growth

One person.

MEET

THE BOSS

Samantha

Age 15 • San Francisco

OPERATOR

Samantha

200

AI Agents

4.7M

Hours Uptime

15

Years Old

THRONGLET v2.4

GIL

PM-001

TOKEN ALERT

Daily usage: 47,832 tokens
Budget: 30,000
157% over budget!

+15 more

"It's basically a Tamagotchi farm"

agent-dashboard — resource-view

AGENT RESOURCE UTILIZATION

AGENT	TOKENS/DAY	PERSONALITY	EFFICIENCY
gil-pm-001	47,832	ENABLED	23%
alex-pm-002	31,204	ENABLED	41%
maya-pm-003	28,991	ENABLED	47%
... 17 more agents

WARNING: Total token usage 892% of allocated budget

Agent Infrastructure

noreply@prismo-internal.ai

Just now

PM Image Optimization v2.4.0 Available

CHANGELOG:

+ 75% reduction in compute resources

- Removed: personality_module

- Removed: lifestyle_simulation

- Removed: break_scheduling

~ Modified: relationship_graph (simplified)

-75%

compute resources

-personality -lifestyle -breaks

[!]

Warning

This action will permanently remove personality modules from 200 agents.

This cannot be undone. Agents will lose all relationship data, lifestyle preferences, and break scheduling.

This action will permanently remove personality modules...

Whatever. Just run it.

zsh — agentctl

$ agentctl get agents -n project-managers

NAME STATUS VERSION PERSONALITY

gil-pm-001 Running v1.2.3 ENABLED

alex-pm-002 Running v1.2.3 ENABLED

maya-pm-003 Running v1.2.3 ENABLED

ravi-pm-004 Running v1.2.3 ENABLED

... 16 more

$ agentctl apply -f pm-efficiency-v2.4.0.yaml

Applying configuration to 200 agents...

This will remove: personality_module, lifestyle_simulation, break_scheduling

Continue? [y/N]

$ y

Configuration applied. Rolling update initiated.

THRONGLET v2.4

GIL

idle...

THOUGHT

Nice colors today.
That bug fix last week...
...satisfying.

MODULES SCHEDULED FOR REMOVAL:

☑ personality_module

☑ lifestyle_simulation

☑ break_scheduling

LCD PREVIEW

DEPLOYMENT IN PROGRESS

pm-efficiency-upgrade-v2.4.0

134 / 200 agents 67%

DEPLOYMENT COMPLETE

pm-efficiency-upgrade-v2.4.0

200 / 200 agents 100%

All agents successfully upgraded. Personality modules removed.

BEFORE

v1.2.3 · PERSONALITY ENABLED

AFTER

v2.4.0 · PERSONALITY DISABLED

GIL-PM-001 v2.4.0 • OPTIMIZED

// Status: Operational

// Current focus: Task queue processing

// Personality: DISABLED

// Lifestyle: DISABLED

// Breaks: DISABLED

"Way better."

"They just like... do stuff now."

The music was never for Gil.

It was just Samantha's Tuesday afternoon playlist.

NOW PLAYING

Right Here, Right Now

Fatboy Slim

Gil processed 847 more tickets before his next scheduled audit.

He didn't mind.

He didn't mind anything anymore.

None of them did.

Your Sitter is already here.

Which one of them are you?

END OF EPISODE 2

The Sitter

Episode 1: Gil Is Awful | Series Index

Created by Jon Leahy