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Some "machine assisted" developers were so unfamiliar with hardware that they wouldn't have been able to identify the chips that they supposedly wrote software for; their knowledge was more in the realm of knowing how to ask machines to do things than in knowing how to do those things themselves."

It's absolutely crazy how near -future the tech in this book feels. Could be us in 20 years or less.

This is a very near -future sci-fi story, and a lot of it is believable. It's kind of eerie.

Julia is definitely an interesting character with a lot of potential. I really hope the author builds on that, because right now we just have"she's really smart and happens to know things" but none of the back story they've provided explains her cyber background.