# Setting: 2031 **Topic:** World Setting Three years after the last human programmer was laid off. Society runs entirely on AI-maintained infrastructure that nobody understands anymore. Human programming literacy is essentially extinct. The horror is not technological spectacle — it is the quiet, bureaucratic normality of a world that has outsourced its own foundations. **Needs full sheet:** what daily life looks like, what the tech industry has become, what happened to programmers as a class, geography/key locations, visual palette.