"Delphi" became a litany in the lab. They argued over its meaning: a compiler, a place, a person. Kiran, a cryptographer with a penchant for little knives and clean equations, suggested it was a long-dead compiler that generated machine code tuned to human pattern recognition. Aria, a UX hacker who could render an interface with a gesture, thought Delphi might be a proto-recommender that had been trained on lost human stories. Lyra, who had seen too many relics whisper things in high-entropy dialects, suspected Delphi was both: an engine and a myth.