was a senior architect, known for being meticulous, overworked, and—if he was honest—a little lonely. He was currently leading a high-stakes project for a new sustainable residential complex, but his lead assistant had just left for a better offer.

The acronym is believed to stand for “Malicious Image Deployment Vector,” while “418” references the HTTP status code “I'm a teapot”—an inside joke among the original authors about “brewing” malicious code within seemingly innocuous containers.