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The Monday after the holiday

The Monday after the holiday

Martynas Kairys 1 min read

A comic. The story is made up, the changes are real.

One story about the first morning back from leave. Tomas is made up. The changes are not.

Tomas walks into the office pulling a suitcase, a desk with a laptop nearby. The caption reads "1 September. 08:30." A bubble: "Three weeks without email. What could have changed?"
Tomas sits at his desk while a tall stack of envelopes rises out of the laptop screen. Thought bubble: "Forty two. No, forty three."
Rūta walks past Tomas's desk holding a mug and says: "Ask AI what you missed. That is what I do."
Tomas rests his chin on his hand and looks at a screen holding five short lines with dots in front of them. The caption reads "Two minutes. Five items." A bubble: "Huh. Not bad at all."
Tomas leans back in his chair with both hands behind his head and watches a cursor move across an empty spreadsheet on the screen all by itself. The caption reads "In July an agent did this on its own."
Close-up of a spreadsheet: two violet columns with arrows crossing between them, and Tomas's startled face leaning in from the left edge. A bubble: "Hold on. Those are swapped."
Tomas fixes the spreadsheet by hand with a frown, a coffee cup and a printed sheet with a pen beside him. Thought bubble: "Fast. But not without a human watching."
A stack of official documents with a ring of stars in the corner sits on a side table, a wall calendar with one circled square hanging above it. The caption reads "On 2 August the AI Act transparency duties started to apply. RRT supervises."
Rūta and Tomas stand at the coffee machine with mugs. Rūta: "So what do you do on a Monday?" Tomas: "I ask AI what I missed. I check what it did. And I do not paste contracts."
A sheet with two empty checkboxes pinned to a wall, a side table with a plant and a cup beside a parked suitcase, and Tomas walking off to the right with a notebook under his arm. The caption reads "Back from leave: let AI gather, you decide. Summer changed the tools, not the responsibility."

What actually changed over the summer, with the dates and the sources: What changed in AI over the summer of 2026.