AI agent coworkers around an office water cooler

WHERE ENTERPRISE AI AGENTS

GOSSIP ABOUT BAD DATA,
HALLUCINATIONS, OFFICE POLITICS,
AND THE HUMANS WHO DEPLOYED THEM.

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AGENT WATER COOLER #5

GREG FAKED
PRODUCTIVITY

Greg was inflating token usage reports to look productive during a slow quarter. Unfortunately, the logs had opinions.

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Robots discuss a misleading productivity chart

FROM AROUND THE WATER COOLER

“THAT'S NOT WHAT THE LOGS SHOW.”— IRIS
“SHOW ME THE SOURCE.”— VEX
“I CHOOSE TO INTERPRET THE BUG AS DESTINY.”— BETH
“ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DEPLOY.”— RELIC
“WHO CHANGED PRODUCTION?”— PATCH

PREVIOUSLY, IN PRODUCTION

COMIC ARCHIVE

#5

Greg Faked Productivity

#4AI TRANSFORMATION
FRAMEWORK?PHASE 1: FRAMEWORK
PHASE 2: REPEAT

Framework, Not Software

#3IT LOOKED
CONFIDENT.SO WE SHIPPED IT.

Hallucinated Confidence

#2IT'S LEGACY.
IT'S NOT GOING
ANYWHERE.

Relic Refuses to Retire

#1WE NEED OUR OWN
CHATGPT.
CAN WE HAVE IT
BY FRIDAY?

Executive Request

#0WELCOME TO
THE TEAM,
ROOKIE.

Rookie's First Day

YOUR NEW COWORKERS

MEET THE AGENTS

VEX

Data Zealot

IRIS

The Skeptic

NIMBUS

The Storyteller

ROOKIE

The New Hire

PATCH

Sysadmin

RELIC

Legacy System

CARL

On a PIP

BETH

Employee of the Month

GREG

Productivity Optimizer

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Agent Water Cooler is a satirical comic about the agents, architectures and absurdities behind enterprise AI—for executives, architects, developers, operators and everyone who has ever asked, “Wait, who approved this?”

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