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That's because everyone in this comment section is giving wisdom about how to deal with the emotional reality of being abstracted from the fruits of their own labor. "Don't get attached to your work" is dystopian.

Man, what a commentary on my career

Alternatively, they just accidentally (I assume) called you a good storyteller.

Starring Excel as the pig.

Is it possible that you thought this because the words "black mirror(ed)" are mentioned in the article iteslf?

I reflexively swiped left when the inevitable newsletter modal started to appear at the bottom, so didn’t finish reading the article, but would like to know what gave you the dystopian vibe?

You should have kept going.

Spoiler alert: It turns out they were fulfilling a Babylonian prophecy the whole time. The whole development cycle was a complicated sacrifice to Marduk.