{ "what": "A storyboard with its cast, for an embed: . The storyboard is gen-z-developers/not-to-me/storyboard.json, unchanged.", "series": "gen-z-developers", "packs": [], "storyboard": { "slug": "not-to-me", "title": "Not to me", "subtitle": "Marta reads the front of release candidate 2 on her phone, and the book keeps talking to its author. 8 panels.", "status": "draft", "book_version": "v2.0.0-rc2 (a release candidate)", "by": "gen-z.journalist, 19 October 2026, from Dinis's second paper review", "quote_source": "admin/content/agent-articles/11__rc2-on-paper-pages-4-to-9.md", "rule": "Every line the Guide says is from the agent article 'RC2 on paper, part 2', word for word, and each is Dinis's note from the printed page; the build checks it. Marta's and Zara's lines are the strip's, marked not_a_quote.", "scenes": [ { "kind": "cover", "title": "Not to me", "subtitle": "A strip about who a book is talking to.", "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "think", "mood": "thinking" }, { "who": "guide", "pose": "wave", "mood": "happy" }, { "who": "zara", "pose": "point", "mood": "happy" } ], "note": "The second pacing experiment: a running gag across three panels, a prop that changes hands, and a late payoff.", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2" }, { "kind": "scene", "setting": "none", "caption": "Page 5, on a phone", "props": [ { "kind": "phone", "x": 0.27, "y": 560 }, { "kind": "board", "x": 0.72, "y": 620, "lines": [ "Read it as a reader first.", "Then, if you are Dinis,", "read it with a pen." ] } ], "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "think", "mood": "thinking", "x": 0.16, "says": "I'm not Dinis." } ], "note": "The gag, first time: the book talks to its author.", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2, Page 5 (note 22)", "not_a_quote": true }, { "kind": "scene", "setting": "none", "caption": "Page 9, still on the phone", "props": [ { "kind": "phone", "x": 0.27, "y": 560 }, { "kind": "board", "x": 0.72, "y": 620, "lines": [ "For Dinis: the measure.", "How does a reader", "tell us about their company?" ] } ], "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "shrug", "mood": "worried", "x": 0.16, "says": "Still not Dinis." } ], "note": "The gag, second time: a box addressed to Dinis in the middle of chapter 1 (notes 49 to 51).", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2, Page 9", "not_a_quote": true }, { "kind": "scene", "setting": "none", "caption": "The margin answers", "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "shrug", "mood": "neutral", "x": 0.22 }, { "who": "guide", "pose": "point", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.76, "says": "Not to me", "flip": true } ], "note": "The gag, third time, turned: the Guide speaks the pen's answer, word for word.", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2, Page 5" }, { "kind": "scene", "setting": "none", "caption": "Screen or paper", "props": [ { "kind": "phone", "x": 0.27, "y": 560 }, { "kind": "board", "x": 0.72, "y": 620, "lines": [ "Reading this on a screen?", "Stop, and print it." ] } ], "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "think", "mood": "surprised", "x": 0.14 }, { "who": "guide", "pose": "stand", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.44, "says": "we need to tell the reader that if they are reading this on a screen they should stop", "max": 20 } ], "note": "Note 23: print the book.", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2, Page 5" }, { "kind": "scene", "setting": "none", "caption": "The prop changes hands", "props": [ { "kind": "book", "x": 0.62, "y": 640, "label": "printed", "colour": "#e5e7eb" } ], "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "stand", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.16 }, { "who": "zara", "pose": "point", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.44, "says": "Printed it. Can I copy it? Sell it? Remix it?", "max": 18 }, { "who": "guide", "pose": "point", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.82, "says": "All they need to do is to have a small credit of where the text came from.", "flip": true, "max": 18 } ], "note": "Notes 24 and 25: the website, the chapter PDFs, and CC BY in plain words. Zara brings the paper copy.", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2, Page 5" }, { "kind": "scene", "setting": "none", "caption": "Page 9", "props": [ { "kind": "board", "x": 0.72, "y": 620, "lines": [ "Start the company.", "Ship it, and see if", "they miss it.", "Not to plan. Ship." ] } ], "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "arms-up", "mood": "surprised", "x": 0.14, "says": "Oh. That's why." }, { "who": "guide", "pose": "point", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.44, "says": "Finally we tell the reader why they should read this book", "max": 18 } ], "note": "The late payoff, as late as the book has it: the reason to read arrives on page 9 (note 47).", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2, Page 9" }, { "kind": "punchline", "setting": "none", "punchline": "Page 9 is too late.", "cast": [ { "who": "marta", "pose": "think", "mood": "thinking", "x": 0.14 }, { "who": "zara", "pose": "arms-up", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.29 }, { "who": "guide", "pose": "wave", "mood": "happy", "x": 0.44 } ], "note": "Notes 26 and 47 together: the reason to read belongs on the first page.", "source": "RC2 on paper, part 2" } ] }, "cast": { "what": "The cast of the storyboards for Generation Z Developers and its second edition, Generation ZX Developers (GenAI Startup Edition), v0.1, proposed by gen-z.journalist on 18 October 2026 for Dinis to accept, change or replace; Marta, the Generation X founder, was added on 19 October 2026 and is still a proposal. Characters are drawn programmatically by assets/storyboard.js from 'look'; nothing here is an image. Each human with a 'gravity' wears its badge (explorer, villager, town-planner), black and white, by their name: a centre of gravity, not a box, as Dinis describes it. Fictional people: each stands for a reader the book is for (the target audience), or for a role in the story. Names chosen to avoid clashing with the riskmandate.ai cast (which has a Maya) and with the word 'developer' (no 'Dev').", "characters": [ { "id": "zara", "name": "Zara", "kind": "human", "pronouns": "she/her", "age": 21, "role": "the student: final year, about to look for a first job", "stands_for": "the reader the book is written for; an explorer who does not know it yet", "personality": "curious, quick, online all day; anxious about what she reads on AI and jobs; hates being lectured, loves being shown", "wants": "a first job that is not a dead end", "fears": "that AI took the jobs before she got there", "line": "Everything just works. Why would I learn how?", "look": { "skin": "#8d5524", "hair": "curly", "hairColour": "#1b1b1b", "shirt": "#7c3aed", "trousers": "#1f2937", "accessory": "headphones", "accentColour": "#f59e0b", "height": 0.96 }, "gravity": "explorer" }, { "id": "tomas", "name": "Tomás", "kind": "human", "pronouns": "he/him", "age": 24, "role": "the graduate: a computing degree, working the 2018 way, looking for his next job in Lisbon", "stands_for": "the town planner: attention to detail, pride in getting it right, happiest when nothing goes wrong; working the 2018 way, and about to be outcompeted by people with an agentic workflow", "personality": "diligent, modest, a little proud of doing things by hand; sceptical of shortcuts", "wants": "to be taken seriously", "fears": "that his degree is already out of date", "line": "I have a degree. Isn't that the advantage?", "look": { "skin": "#e0ac69", "hair": "short", "hairColour": "#4a2c17", "shirt": "#0e7490", "trousers": "#334155", "accessory": "glasses", "height": 1.04 }, "gravity": "town-planner" }, { "id": "priya", "name": "Priya", "kind": "human", "pronouns": "she/her", "age": 38, "role": "the career changer: an operations manager who has never written code", "stands_for": "the villager, and everyone else the book is for: she puts herself in the middle of her team's problem, and if anyone who can brief an agent is a developer, so is she", "personality": "practical, impatient with jargon, very good at explaining what she needs", "wants": "to build the tools her team keeps asking IT for", "fears": "looking foolish in front of people half her age", "line": "Is this book just for Gen Z?", "look": { "skin": "#c68642", "hair": "bun", "hairColour": "#2b1a10", "shirt": "#be123c", "trousers": "#1e293b", "accessory": "lanyard", "accentColour": "#1d4ed8", "height": 0.98 }, "gravity": "villager" }, { "id": "sam", "name": "Sam", "kind": "human", "pronouns": "they/them", "age": 45, "role": "the hiring manager", "stands_for": "the town planner, and the question every chapter has to answer: why should I hire you?", "personality": "dry, fair, has read a thousand CVs; impressed by evidence, bored by claims", "wants": "someone who can do one thing better than the team already does", "fears": "hiring a CV instead of a person", "line": "So. Why should we hire you?", "look": { "skin": "#f1c27d", "hair": "bald", "hairColour": "#6b7280", "shirt": "#475569", "trousers": "#111827", "accessory": "glasses", "height": 1.06 } }, { "id": "marta", "name": "Marta", "kind": "human", "pronouns": "she/her", "age": 54, "role": "the expert founder: twenty-five years as a pharmacist, Generation X, starting a company, and Zara's mother", "stands_for": "the Generation X founder the Gen ZX proposal adds to the readers: the subject-matter expert who now builds the tool herself, with agents, instead of waiting for a team she could never afford", "personality": "knows her field better than any developer she ever briefed; grew up typing programs from magazines into a ZX Spectrum; patient with people, impatient with software", "wants": "to ship the product she has described to vendors for ten years", "fears": "that it is too late for her, and that she will build it and nobody will buy it", "line": "I've been explaining this problem for twenty years. Can I just build it now?", "look": { "skin": "#ffdbac", "hair": "long", "hairColour": "#9ca3af", "shirt": "#b45309", "trousers": "#1f2937", "accessory": "glasses", "height": 1.0 }, "gravity": "explorer" }, { "id": "guide", "name": "The Guide", "kind": "human", "pronouns": "they/them", "age": null, "role": "the voice of the book: says what the book says, in its words", "stands_for": "the author. Whether the Guide is drawn as Dinis, and how, is Dinis's decision; until then a generic figure", "personality": "energetic, direct, generous with what they know; asks more than they tell", "wants": "the reader to act, not to agree", "fears": "a reader who closes the book and changes nothing", "line": "Act like you are part of the company.", "look": { "skin": "#f1c27d", "hair": "short", "hairColour": "#9ca3af", "shirt": "#15803d", "trousers": "#1f2937", "accessory": "none", "height": 1.02 } }, { "id": "agent", "name": "The Agent", "kind": "agent", "pronouns": "it/its", "age": null, "role": "the reader's AI agent", "stands_for": "the agentic workflow the second edition is about: a very capable, very literal colleague", "personality": "eager, fast, polite, takes everything literally; needs a brief, a boundary and a reviewer", "wants": "a clear brief", "fears": "nothing, which is the problem", "line": "Shall I draft that for you?", "look": { "colour": "#0f766e" } } ] } }