At Level 4, Noah's programming skills had become among the absolute best on Earth. He was either the single most capable programmer alive or, at a minimum, within the top three practitioners globally. Once he reached Level 5, Noah was certain he would become definitively the best programmer in existence, surpassing even legendary figures in the cybersecurity and software development communities by a large margin.
But even at Level 4, this level of capability represented a national cyber threat. Noah now possessed the technical ability to hack through the digital defenses of advanced countries' government systems and military networks without insurmountable difficulty.
