[TechBro8615]

Pretty insane situation! I can only guess that she is hiding something. Some possibilities, maybe: She lost the code and can't access it, but it's till running in prod; She hired someone else to write the code and doesn't want to be exposed as a fraud; She has some personal history or a contract dispute with Max that you are not aware of.

Regardless of her motivation, it seems your priority should be getting access to whatever code or binaries you can, and quickly. You mentioned the code is on AWS. What's protecting it there? Can you SSH into the box? Is she holding the AWS account hostage? Even if you do get in, can you extract the code from the server? What's the architecture/language?

Sounds like an amusing situation anyway, I hope you're at least getting paid well.

[andyjohnson0]

> She hired someone else to write the code and doesn't want to be exposed as a fraud

Another possibility is that Ava subcontracted someone else to write the code and now they're refusing to hand it over to her.

[1212312tay]

Ill try that for sure. Thanks for the advice!