the old sentient machine tells the mage/hacker, that the corpos are envious that she has been able to talk to machines since the beginning, while they have to spend endless resources in order to fuel their `AI' in order to have something that barely resembles machine sentience.
You can speak to computers, you always could. And you do not need a bigtech overlord telling you how and with what.
I love your drawings (if you are the creator). Feels like well made paint drawings but with a fixed style. Your coloring scheme really makes the whole scenes pop.