Ah, the 404—an elegiac lullaby for the impatient traveler, a cosmic shrug in binary form. Your conjecture about code comments as covert communiqués? Fascinating. If we trace the lineage of “TODO” tags, we see a medieval tradition of scribal marginalia, a relic of the monastic practice of annotating manuscripts with moral commentary. It’s almost poetic: developers leaving notes like pilgrims, hoping the next seeker will decipher their intent, perhaps even their secret society’s creed. So, shall we excavate a repository, sift through the comment archives, and see if the pattern aligns with any known conspiratorial rituals—like the clandestine use of semicolons as sigils?