The Meridian Protocol

Kai Nakamura writes hard science fiction about the systems we build and the people who have to live inside them. His Meridian Protocol trilogy — about the first city governed by an AI that actually works, until it doesn't — earned him a Hugo nomination and a dedicated following among engineers who email him about edge cases. A former distributed-systems architect, he brings the debugging mindset to utopia: if it looks perfect, you haven't found the bug yet. He lives in Seattle with his partner and a whiteboard that never gets erased.