I went into a deep research hole trying to discover the origin of the quote: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” tl;dr: Earliest online record of this quote is by Vernon Schryver on May 1, 2002. Grey’s Law, 1996? Wikipedia, LLMs, and various random blog posts cite it as “Grey’s Law” which I haven’t been able to corroborate. Wikipedia references a book from 2015 which refers to the quote as “Grey’s Law” but attributes it to “unknown ...
