It's a near-future SF, written in 2009. Sort of a riff on Ken Thompson's classic Reflections on Trusting Trust [0] (spoilers) Some programmers spot a bug that

It's a near-future SF, written in 2009. Sort of a riff on Ken Thompson's classic Reflections on Trusting Trust [0] (spoilers) Some programmers spot a bug that after a lot of investigation seems to be a case of a rogue machine intelligence inserting its own code into software used by humans. [0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...