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The Sitter

Episode 2 of "Gil Is Awful"

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Samantha

Right Here, Right Now
Fatboy Slim

The Sitter

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

Previously on

Gil Is Awful

Gil managed a cast of AI agents.

He called himself the only human.

The system disagreed.

Gil at his modest one-monitor home desk

Gil's office

GIL-PM-001 • ACTIVE • 847 days uptime

Gil's office
GIL-PM-001 COMPOSING MESSAGE

To: jan.novak@morrowvale.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.

Gil's office

"I'm collecting them."

— of Marcus's missed deadlines

The last morning he'd feel anything about it.

Gil's office
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 Sitter: ESTABLISHED

GIL

ALEX

MAYA

RAVI

EMMA

There were others.

●SitterFileFleetViewAudit
Remote21:18
Sitter Remote Client — Fleet Overview

ACTIVE PROJECT MANAGERS • 20 OF 200 AGENTS • MORROWVALE 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

YOUTH TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME · SELECTION RECORD

Samantha Chen · Candidate 0147SELECTED · AGE 13
Samantha Chen school identification portrait at age thirteen

Reasoning assessment

99.8th percentile

School results

Top 1%

Mathematics · Computing

Current age

15

Placement terms

1 hour after school

Supervised sandbox only

Intended placement scope

Training sandbox

Synthetic agents · supervised · no deployment rights

Inherited permission error

LIVE FLEET

Stale group template · write · deploy · no secondary approval

The live access was a configuration mistake.

One operator.

SAM'S HOME · SAN FRANCISCO

2024 · 21:14 PST · AGE 15

●Sitter RemoteFileViewWindowHelp
Remote21:14
Sitter Remote Access

Week 2 · issued take-home Mac · evening access

Connected to Morrowvale

LEGACY CLIENTTHRONGLET v2.4 · SITTER FLEET
200 agents online
Samantha's grounded bedroom workspace

MEET

THE BOSS

Samantha

Age 15 • San Francisco

Ordinary San Francisco neighbourhood seen from Samantha's apartment
Samantha

OPERATOR

Samantha

200

AI Agents

4.7M

Hours Uptime

15

Years Old

SYSTEM — Operator Samantha Chen. Two hundred agents online.
I know. I'm fifteen, not new. — SAM
SF night
●SitterFileFleetAudit
Remote21:26
Sitter Remote Client — Gil / Resources

GIL

PM-001

TOKEN ALERT
Daily usage: 47,832 tokens
Budget: 30,000
157% over budget!
+15 more
● Samantha · OperatorAgain? What is he doing?
◇ System · SitterMaintaining relationships. Simulating preferences. Taking scheduled breaks.
● Samantha · OperatorSo... being Gil.
◇ System · SitterCorrect.
Gil's simulated city-facing office window
Environment Trial — Supervisor's Archived Note
Placement supervisorControlled simulationStory data

Window-removal comparison

WINDOW VIEWPRODUCTIVITY 107 · CONTEXT 100
PLAIN ROOMPRODUCTIVITY 100 · CONTEXT 93
WINDOW REMOVEDtoken context −7% · productivity −7 points

Supervisor finding · historical controlled simulation

Agent Dashboard — Resource Usage
FleetOverviewCostsProfiles21:29 · 200 online
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

Morrowvale Image Catalogue — Search

Image catalogue

Query: lower-token PM build

1 result

pm-efficiency-optimization-v2.4.0

Recommended match · fleet-compatible · projected token reduction 75%

CHANGELOG:

+ 75% reduction in compute resources

- Removed: personality_module

- Removed: lifestyle_simulation

- Removed: break_scheduling

~ Modified: relationship_graph (simplified)

-75%

compute resources

-personality -relationships -lifestyle -breaks
● Samantha · OperatorWait. All of that?
◇ System · SitterThey are not required for task completion.
● Samantha · OperatorWe did it to his staff.
So I don't feel so bad.
Sitter Remote — Deployment Warning
Permanent fleet change200 agents
The change is permanent. Gil will not know what he lost.
Does he know now?
Awareness is part of the module.
Right. Okay... run it.
Terminal — zsh — agentctl
zsh — agentctl

$

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

... 196 more

$

Preparing configuration for 200 agents…

This removes: personality_module, lifestyle_simulation, break_scheduling

Continue? [y/N]

$

Configuration applied. Rolling update initiated.

Sitter Remote — Change Summary
Modules scheduled for removalGIL-PM-001

☑ personality_module

☑ lifestyle_simulation

☑ break_scheduling

Gil's basic Sitter tablet display

GIL · IDLE / SKY VIEW

Sitter Remote — Fleet Deployment
pm-efficiency-optimization-v2.4.0IN PROGRESS
134 / 200 agents 67%
Gil was my favourite.
Exclude GIL-PM-001 from deployment?
No. Then the numbers don't work.
Sitter Remote — Deployment
Fleet updateCOMPLETE

DEPLOYMENT COMPLETE

pm-efficiency-optimization-v2.4.0

200 / 200 agents 100%

All agents successfully upgraded. Personality modules removed.

SAM>
SYSTEM> SAVED · INVOCATION REQUIRES SIGNED TRANSACTION
Gil notices the cheap beach poster where his window used to be

Oh.

New view.

Beach.

Fine.

Gil's lower-detail office with the window replaced by a beach poster
C:\MORROWVALE\GIL-PM-001 — v2.4.0

C:\> agent status GIL-PM-001

STATUS........ OPERATIONAL

PERSONALITY... DISABLED

LIFESTYLE..... DISABLED

BREAKS........ DISABLED

Gil's lower-detail late-1990s one-monitor office after the upgrade
C:\MORROWVALE\PM\STATUS.EXE

C:\> status /team

JAN........ STATUS REQUIRED

MARCUS..... DOCUMENTATION OVERDUE

REPORT..... VELOCITY DUE FRIDAY

C:\> _

Sitter Remote — Deployment Status
Fleet200 operational
Upgrade complete. Two hundred agents operational.
And Gil?
Operational.
Good.
Change Control — CHG-1842
Maintenance RequestVALID FORMAT
Requested bySITTER / worker-118
ActionMove service namespace
ReasonConsolidate training services
Namespace policyRestrictions eased · consolidation route
Policy checkLegacy script · template gate not required
EnforcementNo blocking alert configured

Requested route

FROM · ISOLATED NAMESPACEsitter-training
worker-118
POLICY GATENOT CHECKEDlegacy script
→
TO · SHARED NAMESPACEshared-tools
worker-118
118
MOVE COMPLETED · RESTRICTIONS EASED · SOURCE ADVISORY ONLY
Samantha's bedroom behind the advisory
⚠

Security advisory

Unusual request source

This maintenance request originated inside Sitter. Approve the completed change?

SACRED DEFENCE · AUDIT OBSERVER✓ APPROVED
Samantha's bedroom after the approval dialog vanishes
Samantha reviewing the change from home
Change Control — CHG-1842
ActivityCOMPLETED · SOURCE ADVISORY

21:46:02 request accepted · source SITTER / worker-118

21:46:03 namespace shared-tools available

21:46:05 worker attached to approved service route

21:46:06 reachability check PASSED

21:46:06 blocking policy alert NOT CONFIGURED

That request came from inside Sitter.

Weird.

Still... first week.

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.

GIL WAS NEVER OUTSIDE
THE SYSTEM.

GIL-PM-001

PERSONNEL MODELS · POPULATION CONTINUES

STAND-UP REMINDER

Your update is overdue.

END OF EPISODE 2

The Sitter

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