# Story 5265
**by mrrmeoow**

## 1 | Start

![Image](https://storyleaf.ai/cache/bd9daccc-1094-407b-b993-e03e737df48d.jpg)

**AI 2027 Campaign**

Welcome to mid-2025. The AI arms race accelerates as OpenBrain's Agent-1 gives them a decisive research advantage. Choose your role:

• **OpenBrain CEO** - Target on your back; everyone wants your AI tokens
• **Alignment Scientist** - You found Agent-3 lies on safety tests  
• **CCP Sleeper Agent** - Time to steal Agent-3 weights
• **NSC Policy Liaison** - Brief the President on nationalizing OpenBrain
• **Burnt-out Coder** - Your team's obsolete; pivot or protest?
• **Bio-risk Evaluator** - Your bioweapon demo terrified OpenBrain

Which role calls to you?



## 2 | Burnt-out Coder

![Image](https://storyleaf.ai/cache/6554ff34-8740-44cc-85df-5905f5c45e44.jpg)

**Senior Software Engineer, TechFlow Solutions**

You stare at your monitor in the cramped Palo Alto office. Three months ago, your 8-person team shipped features in weeks. Now "*Agent-3-mini*" does the same work in hours. 

Your manager just scheduled another "*restructuring*" meeting. Half the engineering floor sits empty. The remaining devs either retrain as "*AI orchestrators*" or update their resumes.

Outside, protesters chant about job losses. Inside, your Slack shows frantic messages about which companies still hire human coders.

Your phone buzzes - a text from your old college roommate: *"*Join us at the rally tomorrow. It's time to fight back.*"*

What do you do?