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Abhishek stared at his laptop screen at 2:47 AM. The code compiled perfectly-too perfectly. His college mini-project, a simple attendance system, had started displaying tomorrow's date. January 19, 2026.
"Impossible," he muttered, checking his phone. Still January 18.
Then the attendance log populated itself. Names appeared: Abhishek Patel - Present. Rohan Shah - Absent. Prof. Verma - On Leave.
His hands trembled as he screenshotted everything. This had to be a system glitch. But when Rohan called at 3 AM-"Dude, I'm sick, skipping tomorrow"-Abhishek's blood ran cold.
The next morning, Prof. Verma's leave notice confirmed what the code had predicted. Abhishek opened his laptop again. New data loaded: January 20, 2026. Lab fire drill - 11:23 AM. Server Room - Critical Error.
He had 24 hours to decide: use this power or destroy the code? His final semester project could predict the future, but every prediction he viewed seemed to lock that timeline in place. When he tried deleting the program, it replicated itself across his GitHub repositories.
At 11:22 AM the next day, Abhishek stood outside the server room with a fire extinguisher. The alarm would sound in 60 seconds. He had debugged reality itself-but some bugs, he realized, were meant to crash the system.
The code disappeared from his laptop at 11:24 AM. Only a single comment remained in his IDE: // Some futures are better left uncompiled.