Andrew Nesbitt is a software engineer and package-management blogger who also writes excellent satire in the form of standardized industry documents, such as change logs and incident reports. I have discovered his fiction by way of Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM, a hilariously brilliant story of countless autonomous AI agents responding to a malefactor in the stupidest way possible, eventually “succeeding” by accident, and all written up an an after-action report.

I consider this work a legitimate sci-fi comedy, and I reflect on how I seem to have a soft spot for sci-fi written in the form of archival documents adhering to some real-world standard, rather than traditional prose narratives. The epitome for this presentational trope, for me, is qntm’s Lena, a startlingly good horror tale written as a Wikipedia-style entry.