The first piece of software we ever wrote—just three lines of code. When executed, it immediately shuts down the computer without any prompts, sounds, or visuals—powering off the system and shutting itself down as a consequence. The user might assume it’s a bug, but in fact, that’s its only function.
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The project was a software interpretation of Marvin Minsky’s concept of the “useless machine”—a device designed solely to turn itself off. As Claude Shannon once remarked, “There is something unspeakably sinister about a machine that does nothing—absolutely nothing—except switch itself off.”