Agentic: The Musical

About Agentic: The Musical

What happens when corporate life becomes so absurd that satire struggles to keep up? Agentic is an original comedy musical podcast about AI, software engineering, product management, corporate politics and the wonderfully irrational world of modern work. Follow Alex, an AI Engineer who joins an exciting new company expecting innovation, purpose and intelligent decision-making. Instead, he discovers an ecosystem of three-letter acronyms, strategic pivots, buzzword bingo, return-to-office mandates, executive optimism and just enough AI to make everyone dangerously productive. Each chapter combines original songs, cinematic dialogue and a cast of unforgettable workplace characters to tell a story that feels suspiciously familiar. If you've ever sat through a meeting wondering whether everyone else understood what was just said... this musical is for you. From Token Minning and TLA to Career Limiting, Two Handbooks and Dead Curiosity, every song explores a different species of organisational behaviour with humour, heart and just enough truth to make you slightly uncomfortable. Whether you're an engineer, product manager, designer, executive, consultant or simply someone who's ever been told to "take it offline", you'll probably recognise yourself... or at least someone you work with. The songs are fictional. The characters are fictional. The meetings... ...are unfortunately based on extensive field research. So grab your headphones, suspend your disbelief and prepare for a workplace where the line between satire and reality is almost impossible to find. Disclaimer This musical may or may not have been uninspired by true events. Any resemblance to real companies, projects, executives, engineers, product managers, project managers, HR professionals, consultants, AI evangelists, thought leaders, LinkedIn influencers, account managers, agile coaches, transformation specialists or people who insist "it's pronounced Jira" is entirely coincidental, statistically inevitable, and probably worth reflecting on. No animals were harmed in the making of this satire. Not even humans. Egos..? That's a different question. AI was used prolifically, exhaustively and copiously throughout the creation of this production. Mostly because it never once complained about another meeting. Some of the humans, however, came very close. This production contains sustained exposure to satire, sarcasm, irony, cynicism, optimism, executive optimism, corporate jargon, three-letter acronyms, organisational politics and occasional outbreaks of common sense. Viewer discretion is advised. Not recommended for: People currently "taking this offline." Anyone who has recently said, "Let's socialise this." Executives who describe redundancies as "right-sizing." People who think a dashboard is the same thing as progress. Those who confuse confidence with competence. Anyone who has ever replied, "As per my previous email..." Individuals who identify as AI-first thought leaders before breakfast. People unable to distinguish satire from quarterly strategy. Anyone whose KPI is "AI adoption at all costs." Managers who accidentally joined the meeting twenty-five minutes late and immediately diagnosed the wrong problem. People with an allergy to self-awareness. If at any point you find yourself thinking, "Wait... I know someone exactly like that..." ...please remember... That's entirely your conclusion. Not ours. Enjoy the show. Or, if you prefer... Leverage the experience.

Publisher

AI Roller

Category

comedy · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jul 2026

Latest episode

2 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 17 - Full Circle

   We end where we began, dear listener: the same hall, the same chairs. They remember you. They have missed you. And a familiar meeting, with a new name on the running order. One last all-hands. One last journey. A company that can now produce anything, faster than anyone can ask whether it should. And one final question, which I leave with you, since you have sat so patiently through all seventeen moons: if everyone stops thinking... who will be left to judge what is worth doing?

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 16 - Promotion

   Congratulations are in order, dear listener. The kingdom needs someone to lead the next phase, and it has found him. Credible with the floor, fluent with the top, trusted by absolutely everyone. Which is, of course, precisely the problem. Tonight: an announcement at nine a.m. sharp, two men who each believed it would be them, and a title that comes with rather more paperwork than titles used to. Some gifts arrive pre-addressed.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 15 - BAU

   Time has passed, dear listener, and nothing is wrong. Nothing, anywhere, is wrong. That is the strange part. The tools are everywhere now. In the mail, in the meetings, and somewhere altogether closer than that. Tonight the kingdom unveils its boldest idea yet about what to build when building costs nothing. The kingdom has never produced more. Of what, nobody asks.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 14 - Mourning

   The transformation is complete, dear listener, and tonight the kingdom gathers to celebrate itself. A stirring tale, beautifully told, in which certain names appear rather more often than you might remember — and every word of it written by a machine. Then the applause cools into arithmetic: a pay freeze for the many, bonuses for the few, and a bright new promise that everyone, now, is a developer. When the lights go down, two quieter reckonings remain. One, across a desk, about what 'family' was always going to cost. And one at a midnight kitchen table, where a very tired engineer opens a chat window to write the angriest resignation of his life. What happens next is between him and the machine.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 13 - Adjourning

   How does a kingdom dismantle something that works, dear listener? Carefully. Professionally. With paperwork so immaculate it could be mistaken for mercy. Tonight: evidence argues with authority and learns its place, five long-locked levers move all at once, and a team discovers what 'transition' means when it happens to you. Everyone handles the ending the way they handled the beginning. Almost everyone.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 12 - The Decision

   The kingdom acquires a new voice tonight, dear listener. Polished, connected, and on first-name terms with everyone you have ever heard of. She has come to help tell the story. Stories are rather her thing. Then: three doors. Build. Borrow. Buy. An evaluation, conducted with completely open minds. Officially. Officially.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 11 - The Incident

   At 11:52 on a Thursday night, a very confident machine gives a very expensive answer. By dawn there is a war room, strong coffee, and a hunt. Not for the cause, dear listener. For the owner. Tonight the kingdom discovers what happens to responsibility in a fully automated organisation. It doesn't disappear. It moves. Listen for where it lands.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 10 - Performing

   It launched, dear listener. It works. There was cake. And a kingdom that has finally built something real now faces its most dangerous discovery yet: a number that goes up. Tonight: success is measured, then the measurement is worshipped, then the worship is optimised. Twice. In opposite directions. Eleven tokens, dear listener. Remember the eleven tokens.

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   2 Aug 2026

   Chapter 9 - Reinforcements

   Something unprecedented occurs tonight, dear listener. Something this kingdom has no process, no playbook and no appetite for. The project... goes well. Leadership responds the only way leadership knows how: decisively, generously, and from one floor too far away. Help is coming, dear listener. Senior help. Experienced help. Help with a diagram. Nobody asked for it.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 8 - Reinforcements

    A manager joins his own team's meeting, dear listener. Twenty-five minutes late, camera on, microphone mercifully off. What he witnesses in the final five minutes will inspire him. It will inspire him considerably. Tonight: a diagnosis is made from a distance, a phone call is placed about 'culture', and an announcement follows with all concerns warmly acknowledged and gently converted. How much damage can one man do on mute? Attend, and be counted.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 7 - The Handbook

    Tonight the executives review the project, dear listener, and the project makes a strategic error: it presents evidence. Four reasonable questions are asked. What answers them cannot be described as language, exactly, though it is fluent and wears a blazer. By the end, a conclusion will be reached that nobody proposed and everybody supports. Also tonight: our hero discovers that every company keeps two handbooks. Yours does too.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 6 - Storming

    Alignment, dear listener: the sacred ritual in which a room full of intelligent people hear the same words and agree on them completely. Tonight, one clear vision enters a team meeting. What leaves the meeting is harder to count. And listen for the voice you barely hear, the quiet one in the corner, agreeing with everyone. The most dangerous person in any meeting is the one taking no notes.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 5 - Forming

    The project begins, dear listener. Officially, loudly, and with a keynote. There will be buzzwords. There will be applause. There will be a slide with a mountain on it, because there is always a slide with a mountain on it. And then the vision itself is unveiled to the assembled company, and it is stirring, and it is bold. And to exactly one person in that room, it is strangely, terribly familiar.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 4 - Onboarding

    Day one, dear listener. A fresh lanyard, a warm welcome, and a company eager to explain itself. Twice, as it happens, in two rather different versions. Our hero arrives with a new shirt and his optimism fully buttoned. He is told everything here is flexible, and everything here is easy. Both of these statements are true. And yet, neither of them is.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 3 - The Search for Perfection

    The kingdom requires a unicorn, dear listener: twenty years' experience with a three-year-old technology, nine careers in one body, and a salary described, with breathtaking courage, as 'competitive'. The advert goes out. A thousand hopefuls answer. And somewhere far away, at exactly the wrong hour of the night, a tired engineer stops scrolling. How many interviews does it take to find a miracle? More than you think. Fewer than they planned.

16. 

    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 2 - The Big Idea

    Every transformation begins somewhere, dear listener. Usually in a windowless room, in front of a whiteboard that says DO NOT ERASE for reasons nobody living can explain. Tonight: a dreamer finally gets his twenty-five minutes, and seven executives say yes to his idea. All seven of them. Enthusiastically. Unanimously. To the same idea? Come now, dear listener. You know better than that.

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    2 Aug 2026

    Chapter 1 - All Hands

    A mandatory meeting, dear listener. Nine hundred badges, one auditorium, and a calendar invite titled 'Exciting Update'. If you have ever worked anywhere, that title tells you everything and nothing at all. The rumours are plentiful. The coffee is insufficient. Leadership has prepared a song about the journey ahead. Settle in, dear listener, and listen closely. Some announcements say rather more than they intend to.

18. 

    22 Jul 2026

    Agentic: The Musical - Season 1 Trailer

    Corporate theatre like you've never heard before. An original musical podcast celebrating AI, software engineering and the magnificent art of organisational self-sabotage. Featuring award-unwinning songs, executive optimism, strategic pivots, return-to-office mandates and enough corporate jargon to justify a steering committee. So true you won't believe it's fiction. So ridiculous you won't believe it's reality. Experience the overnight success days in the making.

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