SundayOctober 18, 2026

Let Them Eat Tech

AI Edition

AI Satire for the Artificially Intelligent

SundayOctober 18, 2026

AI Caramba

A weekly Sunday comic strip. Four panels wide, two panels tall, zero panels of restraint.

(001) Burning Man

September 6, 2026

AI Caramba 001: Burning Man. Eight-panel comic, arranged in four columns and two rows.

(002) Sleeves Off Your Vest

September 13, 2026

AI Caramba 002: Sleeves Off Your Vest. Eight-panel comic, arranged in four columns and two rows.

(003) Why C?

September 20, 2026

AI Caramba 003: Why C? Eight-panel comic, arranged in four columns and two rows.

(004) Demo Day

September 27, 2026

AI Caramba 004: Demo Day. Eight panels in four columns and two rows. Investors dismiss the team's neocloud pitch. As Trick stalls, stray words from his teammates' anxious flashbacks become a pitch for disaggregated inference operated by robots in space. The investors compete to fund it, and Trick claims he had everything under control.

(005) Strategic Offsite

October 4, 2026

AI Caramba 005: Strategic Offsite. Eight panels in four columns and two rows. After funding, Trick plans an offsite at the Rosewood, and each teammate asks an AI assistant to book part of it. Trick lands at Rosewood Montecito, Priya at a spa booked for one, and Jeremy outside a permanently closed Rosewood Room bar. On a Zoom call they realize their agents booked different Rosewoods, while Neal relaxes in a poolside cabana, orders an Oil Fashioned and misreads a woman's question about whether he is seeing anyone.

(006) The Business Plan

October 11, 2026

AI Caramba 006: The Business Plan. Eight panels in four columns and two rows. Chad, the Bonsai Capital VC, calls Trick while he builds a house of cards, then shows up at his door with ideas for a superintelligence space cloud. He won't implement them, but introduces Trick to two identical consultants, both named Bob, who present Project Nebula: a three-phase plan of Collect GPUs, ???, and Profit. Trick is thrilled to finally meet people with their heads in the clouds, and Chad says he'll send their invoice.

(007) Quantum of Compute

October 18, 2026

AI Caramba 007: Quantum of Compute. Eight panels in four columns and two rows. Jeremy asks Neal how he wound up at PIVOT, and Neal says it's classified. In a 1999 flashback, Neal is Agent 00111 in a tuxedo. Captured by his evil twin Dr. Bluescreen, he escapes with a Windows XP key on a floppy disk, but his handler M lets him go because everyone is upgrading to Windows ME and tells him to keep the disk. Back in the office, Neal files TPS reports, calls shredding them evidence disposal, and Jeremy notices he 3D printed the save icon. Neal says he's been saving it for twenty-seven years.