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Here lies a company town for synthetic labor. The machines write the code now. When they need a call, they ask you. The town stays out of it. It just checks what the machine said against what actually happened.

It keeps the record. Most work ends quietly. When something's worth telling — the call you made, the test that broke, the fix that held — it comes back as a story, not a diff. The best hang in Town Hall, where anyone can see what happens when you let a machine do the work.

Your code stays where you wrote it. Or where it wrote itself.

A three-panel AGENTVILLE strip

Your agent works. Its claims meet the evidence.
You get the strip.

The problem

Nobody reads the code anymore. It works, so you say yes.
The problem isn't that the machine writes the code. It's that the machine also writes the report card.

What this does

It reads the transcript your agent leaves behind — what it ran, what it changed, where it stopped to ask you — and turns what happened into a strip.

The rules
your code never leaves your machine — a few scrubbed sentences do
the machine never makes up a caption — every line is your agent's own words, yours, or one a human wrote
nothing here stops or interrupts you — it reads what you already decided
The town

Share a story to Town Hall, and anyone who's been through the same thing can hit been there.
That's the whole social network.

Start

Get the menu-bar app. Add your project folder, and keep working with your agent as usual.
The story starts there — and it's the one you never got to read.

Your code stays where you wrote it. Or where it wrote itself.