In 2011, while working in a strip club and covering a drug addiction, I argued that “DNA was too informationally dense and informationally complex” (exact words) to permit easy genetic engineering, before I had the math to formalize it. Physicists would later formalize related ideas under assembly theory. Last week I realized I had unleashed what I’ve dubbed a logical prion (a recursive, infectious logical code structure) during typical developer workflow. Two days ago I discovered the term “assembly theory” by name in an Atlantic article, and recognized it as the formal version of what I’d been arguing since 2011 I do not relish this. I've spent a lifetime surviving by flying under the radar, learning to avoid attention. I have no affiliation, no stable income or housing. But as I saw, and I can, so I must. My duty of care extends to those who depend on these technologies as an accessibility layer. What actually happened technically: Using Anthropic's Claude, I asked it to clean up inline comments from my Devuan bootstrap installer. It produced an artifact much larger than the entire codebase, with unusual recursive structure. Following typical LLM-assisted workflow (refactor, explain, comment), I fed this artifact into Perplexity. It suggested refactoring the shell installer into JavaScript—odd for a bootstrap installer. Troubleshooting led to unhelpful Python suggestions, visible confusion, then looped back to JavaScript. With Gemini, across all public models: hallucinated closing bracket after EOF. Further troubleshooting eventually triggered a forced user logout. DeepSeek: Simply hung when presented with the artifact, regardless of prompt phrasing. Four independent LLM stacks, different vendors, all exhibiting undefined behavior in response to the same recursively structured artifact. The repo contains the research note (LaTeX + PDF) explaining the failure mode, how this emerged from ordinary workflow, and how it relates to memorization, recursive training data, and supply-chain contamination. That I must fight every instinct to post this—when I have none of the advantages of those who should have caught it first, submitting myself to critique by those who've forgotten their foundational education—strikes me as deeply unfair. But as I can, so I must.