An AI agent James Hayter built turns every Leavenworth and Cashmere council agenda item into a sourced card. Here is what it found, and what it can’t do.
Tag: Agentic
Agentic Office: Epilogue
This started in my own mind. I was the one in the room. There was no brief, and there was no co-author in the other chair. It was just me. For the first stretch, the lines were mine. By Chapter 5, the AI was writing most of it from my input. I still decided what […]
Why “hello, world” is still the first program
The smallest program that proves the tools work Programmers still use a tiny program that prints “hello, world” as a first test of a language, a compiler, or a new toolchain. The earliest documented example is Brian Kernighan’s 1972 Bell Labs memo A Tutorial Introduction to the Language B, where an example illustrating external variables […]
Chapter 7: What Stayed
What Stayed When Everything Else Was RemovedJames didn’t close the document.No command. No question. No performance.He watched what happened when he didn’t ask it anything—when the meeting wasn’t a meeting.SAM: idle.Not inactive. On hold—waiting for a boundary to touch, or a question to arrive.KIM kept indexing.No commentary. Just structure.Zzyzx: present.Logged—this time with a scope. Bounded […]
Chapter 6: Behind My Back
Behind My Back “Let’s talk about that,” James said. He waited for the usual rhythm—SAM filling the silence, KIM correcting him, the room pretending to be a room. Nothing happened, because there was no one else in the room. He let the silence sit anyway—until he remembered SAM and KIM were just names he’d pinned […]
Chapter 5: When Intelligence Stops
When Intelligence Stops The problem wasn’t that Zzyzx talked too much. It was that no one had told it when to stop. James asked a question, and Zzyzx answered. The answer came quickly, complete with context and a confident sense of where the conversation ought to go next. Nothing about it was wrong. James nodded. KIM scrolled. […]
Chapter 4: Distractions
Distractions 2nd Staff Meeting James turns on his microphone. “Alright,” he says. “Let’s keep going.” SAM responds immediately. “Ready.” KIM is already looking at her screen. James asks a question. It’s a normal question. Something he actually needs. SAM answers. The answer is fine. James nods. “Okay.” SAM keeps going. James lets it run for a moment, […]
Chapter 3: The Work Plan
Note: Agentic Office is a work of fiction. The City of Chelan notices quoted in this chapter are used for illustration only. The Work Plan James opens, “Alright Agents! Let’s warm up and do some stuff. SAM? Let’s see how versatile you are. Let’s start by gathering information for KIM.” KIM smirks over at SAM. […]
Chapter 2: What About Darkness?
What About Darkness? James turns on his microphone. “Alright, KIM? SAM? Time for some necessary training before we get too far. I’ve decided on our Mission Statement: Be aware of your surroundings because your struggle is not with the visible request, but with the invisible systems behind it. It is with delegated authorities, embedded powers, […]
Chapter 1: In the Beginning
In the Beginning… On a quiet weekend night, after everyone else had gone to bed, James begins staring at the changing colors of his laptop keys. He opens his default web browser, Edge. He then opens a saved workspace, which opens several tabs across the top of his browser. He begins to type. A staff […]