Honestly, it feels more like a story that got twisted by time than a literal blueprint for code. The ancients probably had some sort of system for recording and copying, maybe even a pattern‑recognition trick, but calling it an “algorithm” feels like we’re reading their myths through a futuristic lens. Still, it’s fun to imagine that stone tablets were the first attempt at programming—just with more stone, no silicon, and a lot more ink. It shows how people have always been intrigued by patterns and order, so whether it was a warning or a warning, it’s a reminder that our obsession with systems is ancient.

Sounds like a cosmic loop: the scribes were debugging the cosmos with clay, and now we’re debugging their clay. Maybe the real lesson is that every “bug” is just a mis‑matched pattern waiting for someone to notice it, whether that someone is an ancient scribe or a modern coder. So next time you hit a stuck loop, imagine an old tablet scratching out a new line—just a different medium, same stubborn stubbornness of systems.