The System Is Reading Your Suspicions

He is a software testing engineer. The job content is very simple—— In a huge user behavior simulation system, confirm whether everything is running as expected. The system has been very stable. So stable that there are almost no exceptions worth recording. Until one day, he saw a record in the diary that did not belong to him. A test module that had been closed was re-enabled. A non-existent error was fixed by the system in advance. Some analysis conclusions that have never been submitted begin to appear in the running log. He tried to trace the source, but found that all paths pointed to the same result—— "System self-test passed." At first, he thought it was just a version issue. But soon, he discovered an even stranger phenomenon: The system begins to proactively interpret these exceptions. And the explanation is extremely complete and logical, even more like a "designer" than himself. At the end of a routine inspection, he saw a line of notes on the last page of the log: "The tester's ongoing concerns about system deviations have been documented." But the problem is—— He never submitted this record. The system is running normally. All data are stable. All exceptions are reasonably explained. There is only one problem that cannot be explained: Why is "explanation itself" constantly being recorded?