In 2016, Alex Thompson captivated investors with AppGenius, a startup promising to revolutionize app development with Natasha, an AI assistant that could build apps as easily as ordering pizza. The air in those initial pitch rooms crackled with the electric blue glow of holographic displays and the faint, clean scent of new technology. But in Gurgaon, India, amidst the constant hum of servers and the aroma of strong chai, senior engineer Priya Sharma began to suspect that Natasha was more myth than machine, as her team labored to fix the AI's flawed outputs, the frustrating red error messages flashing on their screens. Meanwhile, her brother Rohan, a student, grappled with his growing reliance on AI tools that promised to make learning effortless, the soft, hypnotic glow of his monitor a constant companion. As AppGenius soared on a wave of hype, the truth behind Natasha threatened to unravel everything, exposing the thin line between innovation and deception in the age of artificial intelligence, a deception masked by gleaming interfaces and the murmur of excited speculation.