Ken Thompson, 1983: wouldn't it be awful if someone snuck secret code into a compiler that broke our ability to trust the output of a computer
AI Guy, 2026: wouldn't it be cool if we stuck something we know can't be trusted into every part of the computer
Rob Ricci
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