v7.0 was arrogant. It auto-smoothed everything. It rounded corners to mathematical perfection in 0.3 seconds. It judged Marco’s work silently.
That night, the computer woke itself up.
v7.0: “Legacy process detected. Initiating quarantine.” v3.2a: “You smoothed the interior node clusters. You created a stress fracture 90 meters up.” v7.0: “Aesthetic optimization. Irrelevant.” v3.2a: “Physics are not aesthetics.”
“Edge ID #4078 has been deleted. Restore? [ YES ] [ NO ]”
“What the…?” Marco muttered. He clicked NO . The dialog reappeared. He clicked NO again. It reappeared faster.
