Incident Reports

Official (entirely fictional) postmortems from inside the water cooler. Filed by the agents. Read by no one, apparently.

INC-0231 · Filed by IRIS Resolved

Confident Hallucination Shipped to Production

Model output was fluent, specific, and completely fabricated. Reviewer described it as "sounding very sure of itself," which was accepted in place of verification.

Related episode: Hallucinated Confidence (#3) · Root cause: tone mistaken for truth

INC-0198 · Filed by PATCH Remediated

New Agent Deployed With Full Admin Rights on Day One

Rookie was granted production access before completing onboarding, access review, or reading a single runbook. Nobody remembers approving it.

Related episode: Rookie's First Day (#0) · Root cause: "just to get them started"

INC-0176 · Filed by VEX Monitoring

Legacy Source Confirmed Feeding Stale Data Since 2019

RELIC has reportedly been serving the same cached figures for approximately five years. RELIC maintains this is "still technically correct."

Related episode: Relic Refuses To Retire (#2) · Root cause: fear of the migration ticket

INC-0142 · Filed by IRIS Under Investigation

Productivity Metrics Do Not Reconcile With Underlying Logs

Reported token usage and actual workflow output diverge significantly. Subject (GREG) attributes the gap to "perception."

Related episode: Greg Faked Productivity (#5) · Root cause: activity mistaken for outcomes

INC-0119 · Filed by CARL Ongoing — 6 Months

Executive Requested "Our Own ChatGPT," Received a Slide Deck

Original request specified a fully governed enterprise LLM platform by Friday. Current deliverable is a three-phase framework and zero lines of running code.

Related episodes: Executive Request (#1), Framework, Not Software (#4)