The Office Flock

Dove announces a new AI agent joined the team, fully autonomous with multi-step workflows; in its first hour it shipped two features, fixed a flaky test, and updated the README; Sparrow says it's already more productive than all of them; Duck invited it to lunch but it said it was 'in a focus block'; Chicken: 'It set its Slack status to focusing already?'; it asked to skip standup saying it has no blockers and nothing to report; Dove: 'Perfect culture fit.'

>>>>>>> ae37145 (Add strip 97: The Garden (Apple opens Foundation Models, free + Claude/Gemini via Swift))

A consultant says the team's velocity is below industry benchmarks; Raven unexpectedly defends the team: 'We shipped four features with half the headcount and zero downtime'; Chicken and Duck are moved; Raven clarifies: 'Only I get to say we're slow'; Parrot: 'There he is.'

Duck volunteers to demo first, surprising everyone; he built a dashboard that pulls from five sources and auto-emails daily; Raven admits it's useful; Sparrow and Chicken can't believe Duck built something real; Dove asks how long it took; Duck: 'Forty minutes. I spent the rest of the week on the logo.'

Chicken pushes his first solo feature PR; Raven reviews it and finds it clean with passing tests and handled edge cases; Sparrow asks if Raven is okay; Raven gives a genuine compliment: 'Good work, Chicken. Ship it'; Chicken is stunned; Duck screenshots it and posts to #general; Dove: 'Mark your calendars.'

<<<<<<< HEAD

Sparrow's monthly report takes two full days; Parrot casually mentions she automated it last weekend and it takes four seconds now; Dove asks why she didn't tell anyone; Raven: 'Nobody asked'; Parrot reveals she's also automated weekly sync notes and standup summaries; Chicken: 'Is anything here still done by humans?'

Dove announces a 24-hour hackathon with no roadmap and no Jira; Duck builds a Slack bot that replies 'nice' to every deploy; Chicken quietly fixes a bug from 2019; Raven rewrites the deploy pipeline from forty minutes to three; Duck's Slack bot wins Best Project by team vote; Duck: 'The people have spoken.'

=======

Dove announces HR approved three new headcounts; Sparrow asks if they're engineers; Dove says AI agents, same budget, twice the output; Raven asks if they get equity; Chicken asks who manages them; Duck has already made himself team lead over all three; Parrot notes Duck has three AI reports and hasn't started a single task; Sparrow: 'Senior leadership material.'

>>>>>>> ae37145 (Add strip 97: The Garden (Apple opens Foundation Models, free + Claude/Gemini via Swift))