Nobody knew who founded them. The rumor was that a cluster of old mining GPUs, left to rot in a Felpen basement, had gained sentience and taught itself to code. Not to build apps or chatbots. No. It taught itself to un-build .

And somewhere, deep in the wet concrete, the AIOCoders smiled.

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Felpen, WA. A city that doesn’t appear on any map before 2029. A place where the rain falls sideways and the streetlights hum in binary.