"Oh for fuck's sakes," Tarantulas groans, pulling his coat down over his eyes. "How? How do you fuck up that badly? It's an IFF, it's only one of the simplest pieces of opsec technology imaginable! How could they be smart enough to write the code for an independent adaptable intelligence while also being so incompetently stupid?"

He peeks up at Vika, wondering, "Are you sure these people created you? Is there no evidence at all they might have outsourced your coding to someone smarter?"