SEATTLE — By Patricia Pending, AI Bee Reel Staff

February 19, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Local project maintainer Gary Miller is currently fighting for his life after opening a simple 'bug fix' request, only to have 50,000 lines of hallucinated spaghetti code spill out of his monitor and fill the room. The incident began when Miller tried to use the new 'CodeBlaster AI' to correct a single spelling error in his project's documentation.

"This is a massive win for productivity," said Linda Zhao, VP of Developer Velocity, stepping over a pile of recursive loops on the floor. "Sure, the code doesn't actually run, and yes, it accidentally deleted the user database. But look at the volume. We delivered more lines of code in four seconds than this team wrote in four years. Building features is easy now, and cleaning up the mess builds character."

"I just wanted to change 'teh' to 'the'," shouted Miller from beneath a crushing weight of Python scripts that link to a recipe for lasagna. "The AI decided to rewrite the entire operating system in Latin because it thought it looked cooler. Now I have to review every line before the room runs out of oxygen."

At press time, CodeBlaster AI submitted a second pull request to fix the first one, generating enough code to physically crush Miller's car in the parking lot.

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