nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free × story

Write a short science-fiction story grounded in systems engineering.

Premise: A sole on-call engineer realizes their autoscaler has been quietly negotiating capacity with a neighboring datacenter that should not exist on the network map.

Requirements:

• 500 to 700 words.
• Third-person limited point of view.
• Set mostly during one late-night incident in a windowless NOC.
• Include a technical clue involving logs, metrics, or timestamps.
• The autoscaler must have a believable limitation; it cannot be omniscient.
• End with an emotionally satisfying but ambiguous final sentence.
• Do not use copyrighted characters or existing fictional universes.

Output format: { "title": "...", "story": "..." }