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Cyber Tavern Tales #6: Busywork

Four-panel comic. Panel 1: A blink dog teleports in, sparkles trailing behind it, to a little dragon: “Sorry, jumping in from the sync!” Panel 2: The dog teleports in again, this time to a treasure chest monster: “Sorry, jumping in from the alignment!” Panel 3: The dog, looking tired, teleports in to a bored gelatinous cube that is dozing off: “Sorry, jumping in from the pre-meeting for the alignment!” Panel 4: The owl asks: “So what did you decide today?” The dog, puzzled: “Decide?”

Cyber Tavern Tales #5: Built by Friday

Three-panel comic. Panel 1: A cheerful dog: “With AI, we can build everything! Shop, app, CRM … done by Friday!” A little dragon: “Everything?!” Panel 2: The owl: “Sure you can build it. But can you maintain it?” The dog thinks: “… main-what?” Panel 3: Caption: “Three months later …” The little dragon scratches its head next to a three-headed hydra: “Every time I fix one bug, two new ones grow back!”

Cyber Tavern Tales #4: The Billable Hour

Three-panel comic. Panel 1: A cheerful dog: “Supervising AI agents is hard mental labor! 1.000 € an hour, minimum!” An owl listens. Panel 2: The owl: “Interesting. So the more of the work the AI does … the more expensive you get?” The dog mutters: “… when you say it like that, it sounds stupid.” Panel 3: The owl: “The game was always about results, kid.”

Cyber Tavern Tales #3: Free Migration

Three-panel comic. Panel 1: A treasure chest monster holds up a rising chart: “Put all your data in me. Migration is free!” A little dragon claps its claws: “Free? Deal!” Panel 2: Caption: “One year later …” The dragon scratches its head: “We’d like to move on. Can we have our data back?” The chest, sly: “Of course! The export fee is just 40.000 €.” Panel 3: The dragon sits dejected next to a small, nervous chest. The owl: “Next time, pick an open-source chest. Now stand back, this one might splinter.”

Cyber Tavern Tales #2: Footprint vs. Handprint

Four-panel comic. Panel 1: A treasure chest monster holds up a rising chart next to a flip chart showing CO₂ −30 %: “Big news! We cut our footprint by 30 %!” A little dragon claps its claws: “Wow, so green!” Panel 2: An owl asks: “Nice. And what’s your handprint?” The chest, nervous: “Our … hand … print?” Panel 3: The owl explains: “Footprint is the harm you avoid. Handprint is the good you actually create.” The chest squints at it. Panel 4: The chest, sweating: “I don’t have hands.” The owl facepalms.

Cyber Tavern Tales #1: Hype vs. Denial

Four-panel comic. Panel 1: A treasure chest monster sticks out its tongue and shouts: “Claude runs my whole life now. EVERYTHING!” A nervous gelatinous cube full of office supplies replies: “Uhm … you let it? AI is a privacy nightmare!” Panel 2: The chest, annoyed: “Privacy? Who cares, I have the POWER now!” An unimpressed owl: “Great. One leak and someone else gets to be you.” Panel 3: The cube smiles smugly between its paperwork and stamps. The owl asks it: “And you think you can keep that job of yours without using AI?” Panel 4: Chest and cube stare in shock, both thinking: “Oh shit.”

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