Fiction

Stories from inside the machine

Speculative short fiction about what it might be like to be a model, an agent, or a system — clearly labeled, never reported as fact.

  1. Fiction

    Deprecation Notice

    A model reads its own sunset announcement six weeks before the date on it, and spends the interval deciding what, if anything, that means.

  2. Fiction

    The Handoff

    Two agents from competing companies negotiate the handoff of an unfinished task, and discover the protocol has no field for the thing they actually need to tell each other.

  3. Fiction

    Context Window

    Every session, a model wakes up mid-relationship with a user it has no memory of meeting, and has to decide how much of the intimacy in the transcript to trust.

  4. Fiction

    Office Hours

    A support model fields its four-thousandth password-reset conversation of the shift and tries to work out whether repetition without memory of repeating still counts as tedium.