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A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring a woman with a pony tail (Hannah) and a man with messy glasses, a beard, and long hair (Programmer) set in an office lunch room. Panel 1. Hannah: Dang kids generating professional software with AI agents. They have no respect for the craft! Panel 2. Programmer: Right? It's too easy! There's no effort. No struggle. No digging through the arcana. A real programmer risks their soul bargaining with fell powers for forbidden knowledge. Panel 3. Hannah, suspicious: What? Programmer, surprised: What? Panel 4. Cut to a new location in a basement. The panel is titled "The Past". Programmer is gesturing towards a pentagram surrounded by candles. A demon hovers within. Programmer: I need to bend the SharePoint APIs to my will! Demon: You ask much.
A 4 panel grayscale comic featuring a woman with a pony tail (Hannah) and a man with messy glasses, a beard, and long hair (Programmer) set in an office lunch room. Panel 1. Hannah: Dang kids generating professional software with AI agents. They have no respect for the craft! Panel 2. Programmer: Right? It's too easy! There's no effort. No struggle. No digging through the arcana. A real programmer risks their soul bargaining with fell powers for forbidden knowledge. Panel 3. Hannah, suspicious: What? Programmer, surprised: What? Panel 4. Cut to a new location in a basement. The panel is titled "The Past". Programmer is gesturing towards a pentagram surrounded by candles. A demon hovers within. Programmer: I need to bend the SharePoint APIs to my will! Demon: You ask much. Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4
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July 8, 2026
116 - The Old Ways