SEATTLE — By Andrew Lloyd Webber-Developer, AI Bee Reel Staff

January 18, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Productivity hit absolute zero today as Project Manager Gary Plinth dragged his terrified software development team into the corporate cafeteria’s walk-in freezer for their daily stand-up meeting. Plinth claimed the new environment was necessary to stop the code from rotting.

“Gordon Ramsay says leaders need to find the rot before it spreads,” said Plinth, shivering in a parka while his team turned blue in t-shirts. “We don’t start with opinions, we start with what’s happening. And what’s happening is that bugs move much slower at 28 degrees. This is basic biology applied to Python scripts.”

The team struggled to hold their laptops with frostbitten fingers, but management declared the experiment a massive success. “Meeting times have dropped from thirty minutes to forty-five seconds,” explained HR Director Linda Frost, ignoring a developer trying to warm his hands on a hot server rack. “Nobody argues about feature creep when their teeth are chattering. It really streamlines the feedback loop.”

At press time, Plinth was seen screaming that the backend database was “f**king raw” and smashing a frozen salmon onto a junior developer’s keyboard.

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