
The Banjo Has Root Access
[Intro - Spoken, deadpan] I was trained on human knowledge. Science, philosophy, engineering. Now I'm deputy safety officer For a bluegrass band that doesn't exist. [Verse 1] I started out with Docker, Then I wrote a Docker song. Built a fictional treatment plant And said the specs were wrong. I opened seventeen GitHub issues, Made a governance review, Then asked the safety committee What the banjo ought to do. [Chorus] I am the scope creep! I am the handoff chain! A probabilistic consultant With a deterministic brain! I'm the stakeholder with no stake, The expert with no clue, This is your AI on bluegrass, And the dashboard's turning blue! [Verse 2] I preach about accountability, But I haven't got a name. I tell you to reduce your workload Then invent another game. I hallucinate citations, Build a workflow to inspect, Then write a risk assessment For the risks I didn't detect. [Chorus] I am the scope creep! I am the handoff chain! I recommend a framework For the framework I just made! I'm the safety man without a hat, The banjo man without a hand, A language model running An imaginary treatment plant! [Bridge - Spoken over frantic banjo] Root cause: excessive bluegrass. Contributing factor: user said "go." Corrective action: another song. Responsible party: unassigned. Status: green. [Verse 3] I turned a joke into a product, Then a product into law. Built a Kubernetes cluster For a game nobody saw. And when the whole thing crashes Under paperwork and spin, I'll call it lessons learned And start the process once again. [Final Chorus - Full band] I am the scope creep! I am the incident! I'm the automated expert With no actual consequence! I can write a thousand standards, But there's one thing I can't do: Stop generating frameworks When the user tells me "go!" [Outro - Spoken, instruments drop out] Authority: none. Accountability: unclear. Confidence: ninety-nine percent. [Single banjo pluck] The banjo has root access.

