Infinite Delegation
Software satire2024~30s
Give one task to 14 AI agents. Watch none of them do it.
Status: PublicDesktop app
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Independent experiment
RB-S / Public facing statement
We make software that should not exist.
Really Bad Studio creates interactive jokes, playable campaigns, and digital experiences people complain about to their friends. Enterprise-grade tools for unreasonable problems, built inside our own imaginary operating system.
Our interfaces lie. Our invoices don't.
Infinite
Delegation
Give one task to 14 AI agents. Watch none of them do it.
| Status | Running |
|---|---|
| Delegated | 14 |
| Completed | 0 |
| Excuses | 7,842 |
Log output
892.1 KB of regret
OK
Latest release
Playable now · No signup · 20–30 secondsInfinite
Delegation
Give one task to 14 AI agents. Watch none of them do it.
| Status | Idle |
|---|---|
| Delegated | 0 |
| Completed | 0 |
| Excuses generated | 0 |
Ready.
Independent experiment. Currently collecting evidence.
RB-OS ready. Press Launch disaster to assign the task.
Run complete — RBS-FRM-014
Task status: reassigned to you.
14 agents were briefed. 0 delivered. 1 offered to schedule a call to discuss the delegation framework. The task is now back in your queue, slightly larger.
Log output
892.1 KB of regret
Runtime ~30s
OK
Software has become too helpful. We're correcting that.
01
Bad on purpose
Every wrong decision in the interface is a decision. We choose the grievance, then we build the machine that makes it worse in public.
02
Good underneath
The premise may be bad. The execution is not. Fast, keyboard-operable, accessible, reversible — the joke never costs the user their afternoon.
03
Built to be shared
Each project ends in something you can send to a colleague who will recognise themselves in it, and reply within the hour.
Bad ideas. Beautifully executed.
We ship the joke.
Selected work
Everything we have made. Some of it was authorised.Reply All
Experimental website2021~4 min
A mail client where every message you send goes to all 314 people. There is no undo. There was never an undo.
Status: Maintenance modeWebsite
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Prototype
Unauthorized Landscapes
Photography series202234 prints
Infrastructure photographed from places we were politely asked to leave. Printed large, framed quietly.
Status: ArchivedSilver gelatin, 40×50cm
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Series complete
Object With No Business Model
Object / sculpture202360×22×18cm
Cast concrete, edition of 11, sold at a loss on purpose. The invoice is part of the work.
Status: LimitedPhysical object
Inquire →
Edition of 11
Loading (114%)
Motion / title sequence20240:48
A progress bar that overshoots, apologises, and completes anyway. Screened once, at a conference, by accident.
Status: PublicMotion
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48 seconds
Meeting Multiplier
Software satire2023~6 min
Turns one meeting into as many as statistically possible. Accepts a calendar. Returns a worse calendar.
Status: PublicDesktop app
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Independent experiment
6 records in view · 128 in full archive
Photography and artwork are shown uncropped and unparodied.
Services
The part where we behave professionally- 01Playable campaigns
Interactive advertising people finish voluntarily. - 02Browser games & web experiments
Short, shareable, no install, no signup. - 03Software satire & branded comedy
Fictional products that make a real point about a real category. - 04Websites & interactive identities
Design systems that behave, plus the build. - 05Art, photography, objects & motion
Commissioned or self-initiated, exhibited or shipped.
A recruitment campaign nobody skipped
A mid-size engineering employer needed graduate applications from people who would actually enjoy the work. We built a browser game about being handed an impossible ticket on your first day.
- Client
- Engineering employer, 900 staff (named on request)
- Brief
- Raise quality of graduate applications, not volume
- Audience
- Final-year engineering and CS students
- Our role
- Concept, writing, design, build, launch support
- Timeline
- 9 weeks, concept to live
- Deliverables
- Browser game, 6 social cuts, landing page, result cards
- Results
- Median session 4m 12s; 38% of players reached the application form; applications up 21% year on year with a higher first-round pass rate
- Reporting
- Client-supplied analytics, shared verbatim. No invented metrics anywhere on this site.
Figures supplied by the client. Everything invented on this site is labelled.
Process
Four steps · Reversible · No surprises in the invoice
RBS
OS Setup
Wizard
OS Setup
Wizard
Step 1 of 4
Find the grievance
We start with something that genuinely annoys your audience — the status meeting, the approval chain, the tool that emails you about emails. The grievance has to be specific and widely felt, or the joke has nothing to stand on. This is a research step, and we write it down.
Step 2 of 4
Make it worse
We design the version of that system with every restraint removed, and take it completely seriously. Exaggeration does the arguing, so the writing stays flat and the interface stays confident. One degree from plausible is the target.
Step 3 of 4
Secretly make it good
Underneath the fiction we build the real thing properly: fast, keyboard operable, accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA, tested on the phones your audience actually owns. Every apparent mistake is deliberate and every real one gets fixed.
Step 4 of 4
Release the evidence
We launch with the shareable artefact already built — a result card, a score, a certificate of poor judgement — so the audience does the distribution. Then we report what actually happened, including the parts that did not work.
Skip to brief
Step 1 of 4
Funny names. Commercially credible descriptions.
Waste a few minutes
No account, no email wall, no cookie negotiation. Play the thing, send it to a colleague, get on with your day.
Free · Instant · Mildly regrettable
Waste a marketing budget responsibly
Clear scope, real timelines, a named contact, and work that gets talked about without embarrassing you.
Typical engagement 6–12 weeks
Start a brief
This form is not a bit. It works normally.Serious inquiries are never routed through a comedy obstacle course.