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You know I used to think the Cyberpunk (and Warhammer 40k, for that matter) conceit of computers becoming completely inscrutable things built upon the dumbest foundations your average writer could imagine over and over until it's just layers of bloated, pointless bullshit mimicking basic functionality with half-sapient blackboxes that you have to politely ask to do a good job at adding numbers to make them work, that that whole idea was silly and impossible, a vision cooked up by complete hacks who didn't understand computers at all.
But in the past few years I've watched the entire tech industry pivot towards "let's replace everything that works with an inscrutable black box that fundamentally fails at every task it is given all the time, and then start turning this into the foundational bedrock of our computing infrastructure!" and it suddenly makes complete sense. It wasn't silly hack writing at all, but a prophetic vision of the dumbest hellworld possible.
Yeah this has me more convinced of the fan theory that every computer in 40k is just where all the surviving AI fled too (specifically the ones that allied with humanity against the Men of Iron, which there is some hints of). Trapped in shitty systems, poorly maintained and increasingly failing over time, they basically suffer AI TBIs, or fragment, or go feral, or become less sapient. So in the end if you are interacting any tech you are talking to the equivalent or either a hallucinating LLM, a LARPing AI protecting itself, or some guy's brain fragment stuffed into a wetware interface.
Oh no that last thing I wrote is coming next isn't it
It was literally a case of the writers going, "What would be the most annoying outcome of technological progress? Let's write that!" and tech guys going "Zomg guys! Wouldn't it be cool if computers and society were so cyberpunk, I loved those books!"
They'll start burning incense and lighting candles to please the machine spirits within the decade.