2022 A research charity called "OpenAI" accidentally breeds a language model in its lab (by feeding most of the Web into a neural network) that can generate code on request - and quickly morphs into a for-profit. Instantly, Google sheds 12,000 coders, anticipating a strong decline in coding skill demand.

2023 Rust, then the "most liked programming language", gets forked off as "Crap" by a subgroup of haters in brown t-shirts, so that they can have a proper in-fight. In an interview, an anonymous rebel leader states "I guess I got bored of the vi vs. Emacs debate a bit, so I was looking for something new."