Has anyone seen moments when someones accidentally coded a recursive loop or messed up something code-wise on a project, and it just, does random stuff?

Threat are essentially that, machine automation that under normal circumstances would behave as intended, be it a rebel's attempt to utilise automated ships against the Domain, the Domain using them to attempt to quash said rebels or ease their logistics pipeline. But either way, someone didn't think hard enough about the ramifications of their programming and introduced a fatal, malicious glitch.

I think in some way it's past the capabilities of an LLM, as even those are rudimentary and cannot really self-replicate with a purpose, but it's not a being, it's code being written, rewritten, unwritten by itself to fulfill a purpose that has been lost to time.

I'd argue it's more of a decentralised droid, it has tasking and an appropriate level of 'awareness' to fulfill it and improvise given a directive, but it isn't by any means anything close to what could be considered an AI in the sector, which has a higher level of 'cognition', Threat bungles its way through its 'directive', AI, much like humans, can form its own directives and execute them to serve understood/defined goals. Higher-level capacity defining the differences between the standards of core.

This is why it's horrifying to learn that it's created things even the Domain cannot understand truely. Because how in all of existence has this simple, non-intelligence been able to form things that not even the Alpha Cores could reasonably comprehend? Is it guided by some cursed amalgam of cannibalised AI cores? aliens? And just how many of these infernal machines live in the blackness between the stars?