The screen went pitch black. Then, a low-resolution prompt appeared in a searing lime green font:
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Leo froze. 14,500 hours? That was roughly the amount of time he’d spent "learning" to code over the last five years without actually finishing a single project. The screen went pitch black
Suddenly, his mouse cursor moved on its own. It opened his compiler. It began to code. Rapidly. Logically. Perfectly. Leo tried to grab the mouse, but it felt like fighting a ghost. His speakers began to emit a low-frequency hum that made his focus sharpen to a razor's edge. 14,500 hours
The program began to flicker, showing snapshots of his own hard drive—his unfinished novels, his half-baked apps, his "to-do" lists that hadn't been touched in months.