The first page of results was a graveyard. Fake links. Whitepapers about the spec, not the spec itself. Marketing fluff. One link promised a "free download" but demanded her credit card. Another led to a forum post from 2017 where a user named had simply replied: “You need to sign an NDA with the PCI-SIG. No PDF for you.”
She applied his fix. Re-ran the simulation.
But desperation is a great inventor.
The red errors turned green. The link trained successfully. At 16 gigatransfers per second, her AI card finally breathed.
