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programmer that finds a magic lamp and spends their three wishes on making sure the program runs in spite of its bugs and remains useful. the program gets more buggy over time, accruing more workarounds, but it continues to work. people can't ditch it because it fulfills a function and this program continues to work even when it really shouldn't. the computers have changed. the program was written for an older architecture but by supernatural coincidence the binary works on the new one,