Artificial Intelligence, Natural Laziness is a ten-page comic in Dutch. It is set at Pixel & Pruts, a software design agency in an attic on a canal. Bas (PHP), Mo (automation), Lotte (design), director Jeroen, SEO specialist Sanne, PHP developer Daan and marketer Femke get a client, toaster factory Krokant, that wants a complete platform. The budget is a toaster. They let AI do the work and present that as their own method. Sanne renames pages for Google, which breaks Daan's links. Daan sends everything to the homepage, Femke turns the rising visitor numbers into a press release, and Jeroen promises the client it will be international too. On the last page the AI turns out to have delegated the work to another AI.
The AI is not a character in this comic. It exists only as text on screens: conversations, code, progress bars and error messages. At every important AI moment the camera moves from the office into the screen, so the text is large and sharp. That screen text is HTML on the drawing as well. A script measured the blank screens in the drawings, so the text lands exactly on the drawn screen. There are also drawn close-ups of laptops and monitors in SVG.
The drawings were made with the gpt-image-2 image model from two character sheets made for this comic, so the seven characters have the same face and clothes in every panel. The drawings contain no text: every balloon, sign and screen is HTML, so it is sharp, zoomable and readable by a screen reader. The comic has no buttons. You read by scrolling, and the animations start by themselves when a panel comes into view: balloons appear, screen lines come in, coffee steams. With ‘reduce motion’ set in the operating system everything is in its final state at once.
On a phone the panels are stacked, with the balloons above the drawing. The whole comic is rendered to HTML at build time and reads without JavaScript. Built with Vite and TypeScript, without a framework, with Claude Code as programming assistant. Tests check, among other things, that balloons do not overlap and stay inside their panel, that screen text fits its screen, that the camera ends on the whole screen, and that there are no buttons in the comic.
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