Kaelen swore. PCIe bandwidth. The silent killer of every Rigger. You could have the brain of a god and the eyes of an angel, but if the path between them was a two-lane country road, you experienced stuttering reality. Lag in the Loom meant lag in the meat. If the PCIe bus choked, the wedding guests wouldn't just see a glitch—they'd feel their left foot go numb or taste burnt aluminum for three seconds.
Kaelen tapped his temple. "Mira, status on the bridge." pci bandwidth
Mira, his AI co-pilot, sounded strained. "CPU is cold. GPU is bored. But we have a problem. The PCIe switch is redlining. Lane 7 is saturated. Lane 3 is throwing correctable errors." Kaelen swore
Officially, you don't reconfigure a live 256-lane PCIe fabric with a laser. But Kaelen was a ghost in the machine. He identified two underutilized lanes—lane 11 and lane 12, currently carrying the AI's emotional subroutines (mostly mild anxiety). He traced the tiny gold-plated traces on the board. With a surgeon's precision, he vaporized a microscopic bridge. You could have the brain of a god
He sighed. "Mira, what's on lane zero?"
