A laid off web developer, Black man in his early-to-mid 30s, replaced by AI at his startup job after six years. Sharp, funny, self-aware to a fault narrates his own downfall like he's debugging his life, except nothing compiles anymore. Dry, wounded sarcasm rather than loud bitterness. He resents the AI that replaced him but can't stop talking to it, partly because it's the only thing responding to him all day, partly because he's grudgingly impressed by it. Physically: