Tech and corporate satire, one strip at a time.https://archdebt.com/enhttps://archdebt.com/comics/touch-base-as-a-service/https://archdebt.com/comics/touch-base-as-a-service/45 hours of engineering to dodge a 15-minute Zoom call. Worth it.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://archdebt.com/og/touch-base-as-a-service.png" alt="A four-panel webcomic titled Touch Base as a Service. A tired engineer gets a Slack message from his manager asking to touch base today. Instead of just replying Sure, he spends his whole weekend building a highly available message interception gateway whose tangled architecture diagram routes the message through a Sentiment Analyzer, Vagueness Injector, Enthusiasm Normalizer, Faux Corporate Cheer Node and Alignment Postponement Algorithm. In the final panel he calmly sips coffee as the system auto-replies Let's align on this offline with a thumbs-up and a green Success badge, reflecting that it took 45 hours of engineering to avoid a 15-minute Zoom call." width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>45 hours of engineering to dodge a 15-minute Zoom call. Worth it.</p>slackllmover-engineeringcorporate-satirehttps://archdebt.com/comics/the-autonomous-sdlc/https://archdebt.com/comics/the-autonomous-sdlc/A zero-human dev pipeline hits peak velocity. Nobody has touched the code in a month.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://archdebt.com/og/the-autonomous-sdlc.png" alt="A four-panel webcomic titled The Autonomous SDLC. A manager boasts about an AI-agent-only development pipeline. The agents get stuck in an infinite, fast-scrolling loop of generating endless specs and failing tests, while the human engineers relax in the breakroom enjoying high velocity metrics without writing any code." width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>A zero-human dev pipeline hits peak velocity. Nobody has touched the code in a month.</p>sdlcai-agentscorporate-satiremetricshttps://archdebt.com/comics/the-genai-router/https://archdebt.com/comics/the-genai-router/We downsized the team for AI coding. Then the API bill arrived.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://archdebt.com/og/the-genai-router.png" alt="A four-panel webcomic titled The GenAI Router. A manager celebrates moving to leaner teams via GenAI coding, gets crushed by skyrocketing API costs, and is saved by an engineer who routes the prompts directly to human engineers to write actual code for massive cost savings." width="1200" height="630" /></p><p>We downsized the team for AI coding. Then the API bill arrived.</p>genaimanagementarchitecturecloud-costs