Imagine a computer like a PDP-11 but with more than 3 billion SP4T switches. The switches are various combinations of 'magic' and 'more magic'

the authors of the code are dead, there are no comments except for old code, and sometimes the comments run anyway

and it's wet

this is biology.

@NanoRaptor Isn't this just Hex from Discworld?

I'm pretty sure by the end there all anyone really knows to do is to keep the ants fed.