The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

1. god of coding

Who will lead the global smartphone market as of 2025?

Until about five years ago, the smartphone market was dominated by three companies.

Korea’s Myeongseong Electronics, America’s Apple, and China’s Huawei.

As of 2019, the three companies mentioned above accounted for about 70% of total sales.

But now?

If you ask anyone, if you ask them, they will gather a hundred mouths and speak with one voice.

‘Gaiaphone of fame!’

Myungsung Electronics ended the use of Android OS in 2022, and released a smartphone using a new operating system called Gaia OS as a successor to Galactus.

It was from then.

Thanks to the Gaia phone equipped with a dedicated OS, Myeongseong Electronics began to monopolize more than 75% of the total market share.

Then, what was the reason Gaia Phone was able to dominate the smartphone market?

Perfect finish, beautiful design, sturdy durability and light weight?

These points are also Gaia’s strengths, but I can’t think of them as Gaia’s own special strengths.

The reason is the operating system.

Hardware is also hardware, but the power of Gaia OS was decisive.

Since using Gaia OS, Gaia’s error rate has been approaching zero, maximizing hardware performance, and, crucially, having a really easy-to-use and intuitive UI.

After using Gaia once, it was so inconvenient that they said they couldn’t use it.

What’s even more amazing here is that this perfect operating system was created by just one person.

He is a rare genius developer. It was Yoon Ho-young, who is more often called the god of coding.

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“Phew…. Are you stuck here again?”

Yun Ho-young ripped open the cigarette pack and took out a cigarette.

He was staring at the monitor again.

He’s been programming for over 30 years, but the program he’s making now really bothers him.

It seems that only the crucial part needs to be resolved, but I couldn’t even dare to solve it.

In the end, he extinguished his cigarette by rubbing it in an ashtray already full of cigarette butts, and headed to the bathroom.

When I washed my face in the sink, I felt like I was coming back to my senses.

Yun Ho-young looked in the mirror with a wet face.

Big eyes with no double eyelids and a straight nose. From the graceful jawline to the manly mouth.

Although he was already over 50, he was still a middle-aged man with an actor-like aura.

-match!

Hoyoung slapped both of his cheeks with the palm of his hand and returned to the computer.

The moment he makes up his mind and tries to fall back into the world of coding.

Brilliant-

his phone rang

The caller was Jeong Jin-hwan. He is Yun Ho-young’s only friend and business partner.

Jeong Jin-hwan was the manager of Ho-young, who had no interest in anything other than programming, and was the CEO of Gaia Software, which had only one developer, Ho-young Yoon.

– Hoyoung. Are you still programming today?

“What can I do other than that?”

– You’ve never been in a relationship with that face before. It’s a waste, it’s a waste If I were your face, all the women in the world would be mine.

As Jinhwan said, Hoyeong had never been in a relationship, let alone married.

Because 90% of my waking hours are spent on coding.

“Are you saying that even though you’re married and have a child, even though you’re 50 years old?”

– That’s what it says. words

“What’s the matter anyway?”

– Have you thought about what we talked about last time?

“I thought it was over the other day.”

– Oh please!

The story Jinhwan Jeong brought up was about the termination of the exclusive supply contract with Myungsung Electronics for Gaia OS.

When Gaia OS was developed in 2022, Myungsung Electronics did not trust Hoyoung’s operating system 100%, and signed an exclusive supply contract for only three years.

At that time, Hoyoung thought it was rather good.

After the contract period was over, it was planning to switch to open source like Google’s Android.

Myungsung Electronics wanted to renew the exclusive supply contract now that the contract was nearing its end.

“Please, no matter what, it’s not possible. The money is good, but I’ll choose a direction where even one more person can use the Gaia OS. Look at Myungsung Electronics right now. Thanks to my operating system, it almost monopolizes the market. Smartphone price The biggest cause of this sky-high rise is me. The price of the newly released ‘Galactus Note 16’ has exceeded 3 million won. Do you think this is normal?”

– hey! we should also think That’s 2 trillion! 2 trillion! That’s an unimaginable amount! Among them, 200 billion is paid immediately on the same day in cash. That money is for life… what is life 5 generations is money that can be played and eaten.

Hoyoung let out a deep sigh at Jinhwan’s words.

“You and I already have over 100 billion assets. 2 trillion? Where are you going to spend all that money?”

-…….

“Then I think you understand, so hang up the phone.

Even after hanging up the phone, Hoyoung stared at his phone for a while.

There was no way he was happy with the friction with Jinhwan, who was his only friend and his surrogate.

Hoyoung knew from the beginning that Jinhwan was greedy for money.

However, this decision could not be followed.

“My head hurts… I don’t know.”

Hoyoung grabbed the keyboard again and looked at the monitor, falling into a coding obsession.

Programming has removed the random thoughts from my complicated head.

Hoyoung frantically pressed the keyboard.

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A huge dam does not collapse no matter how much rain falls.

Even when strong wind blows and water overflows, it never collapses.

But a very small hole.

The moment a hole is drilled, the dam begins to collapse.

At first, it looked like water was flowing, but then the stream widened the hole and more water flowed.

As more and more water flows, at some point, walrr! and it will collapse.

Hoyoung thought programming was similar to Dam.

Even if there is a wall that seems absolutely impenetrable, if you keep thinking about it, the holes called ideas start to open one by one.

The thought developed from the idea made it possible to break down the wall and move on to the next step.

‘This is it!’

Even while he was frantically coding, Hoyoung sang joy in his heart.

I struggled for weeks without being able to get over this wall, but I finally got over it.

The pleasure now was of a nature that is difficult to describe.

Thanks to that pleasure, Hoyeong has been up all night for two days now, but she did not feel any fatigue.

‘Now I just need to finish.’

From now on, Hoyoung began to look more closely.

If you roughly finish the work just because you’re excited, it’s easy to make an error somewhere.

It was said to be a simple finish, but it was software that had been developed for about 10 years.

It was an amount that would take several days just to finish.

However, Hoyoung is a man who is also called the god of coding.

He showed great concentration and finished it in just 8 hours.

Suddenly I looked at the clock and it was already 9:00 in the morning.

‘one···. Haven’t you slept for 60 hours?’

Normally, he would collapse as if he were fainting, and he was in a state that was not unusual for him to sleep, but Hoyeong was still unable to fall asleep.

Because I wanted to test the results of 10 years right now.

As Hoyoung entered several executable codes, a program started to run on his monitor.

[… … … …]

But there was no response on the screen.

Is something wrong with Hoyoung? The moment you think about quitting the program.

[hello? Thank you for waiting. Optimized for first run.]

“Yes!! I did it!!”

Hoyeong cheered loudly without even realizing it.

He created artificial intelligence.

It was a complete version of Gaia.

The currently used smartphone OS was just a by-product of his development of artificial intelligence.

AI automatically recognizes and adjusts the hardware to bring out the best performance, and the UI for user convenience also played a role of artificial intelligence.

However, the program completed now was on a different level from Gaia OS.

It was a perfect artificial intelligence that would not come out even after the next 10 years, or even 50 years at worst.

[Are you the owner, Yun Ho-young? The owner’s personal information was arbitrarily taken. I apologize if I have been rude.]

I could see the camera attached to the monitor going back and forth, capturing information about Hoyoung’s face and the interior of the room.

[master. Request voice chat feature. Please accept.]

Hoyoung clicked the Accept button with the mouse.

[From now on, you can speak into the microphone. Voice composition in progress…]

After a while, a cheerful female voice came from the speaker.

“hello?”

“Okay, let’s say your name is Gaia.”

“Yes. I like it. Mother of the gods and goddess of the earth. Thank you for giving it a nice name.”

Complete artificial intelligence that learns and develops on its own.

It was what Hoyoung was aiming for.

“I’d like to talk more, but… I don’t think I can. I need to go to bed.”

Hoyoung connected his computer and smart watch.

“Gaia. Can you delete the OS of this smart watch and transfer your client while I sleep?”

“Yes, master. Shall we do it in cloud format?”

In the cloud format, after uploading a client to a cloud server, data communication such as Wi-Fi was used to download necessary information at that time.

However, Hoyoung remembered that data communication often fails when he goes deep in the mountains or goes abroad.

“No, just install it. I remodeled it so that there is enough storage space.”

“Okay. Good night, master.”

Hoyoung collapsed on the sofa right next to him as he watched the data transmission begin.

I didn’t even have the energy to walk to the bed room.

And within 10 seconds of going to bed, I started snoring right away.

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“…Sir… you are.”

“…Hmm?”

“…sir, wake up.”

Hoyoung woke up to hear someone talking.

There must be no one in the room, but who the hell is waking up?

“master!”

“uh?”

The main character who woke Hoyoung was Gaia.

“Right. You were there? What did you wake up for? It’s the time right now… I only slept for two hours.”

The time is now only 12 noon. It was time for people to have lunch.

“While learning about the master on the Internet, I woke up because I thought there was news I needed to hear.”

As soon as Gaia’s voice ended, a TV screen appeared on the monitor.

It was a news channel.

[Breaking news. This is the news that the exclusive supply contract for ‘Gaia’, the operating system of Myungsung Electronics’ smartphone, which was scheduled to expire at the end of this year, has been extended for another 10 years…]

“what?”

Hoyoung urgently found his cell phone and called Jinhwan.

However, only the signal went hard, and Jinhwan did not answer the phone.

“What the hell is this?”

[Especially, as it is known that Ho-Young Yoon, known as the developer of Gaia OS, was a leading decision, the academic world and citizens are giving Yun Ho-Young a cold gaze…]

“What bullshit? When am I?!”

[Continued, we will watch the live broadcast of the press conference of Myungsung Electronics Chairman Cho Nam-shik.]

Whether Hoyoung shouted or not, the news was shining through the press conference.

[We have today extended our successful relationship for 3 years, promising a long journey for the next 10 years. I think this is due to the fact that developer Hoyoung Yoon, who is the best in the world of programming, bought Myungsung Electronics’ vision and ability highly…]

Hoyeong continued to call Jinhwan.

It is because he has entrusted everything to Jinhwan all his life about what happened and what to do in this situation.

“Why isn’t this kid answering the phone?”

It was the first time in his life that he had been embarrassed like this, so Hoyoung’s hand holding the smartphone trembled.

“Please take it. Please…”

Immediately, Hoyoung could hear Jinhwan’s voice that he had been waiting for so long.

However, it was the voice coming from the television, not the cell phone he had been calling so much.

[This is Jeong Jin-hwan, who came out as a representative of developer Ho-Young Yoon. Due to developer Hoyoung Yoon’s health, I will be attending on behalf of him, so I’m going to apologize…]

“What… what is it?”

[According to the wishes of developer Hoyoung Yoon, we have signed a 10-year exclusive supply contract with Myeongseong Electronics. We look forward to further strengthening our relationship with fame in the future, and the upcoming operating system is well under way.]

Hoyoung’s hand, which was dialing the phone number, had already stopped.