Yeah, late to the party.
While the core idea of the story, I actually liked, the internal problems with the story kinda bugged me all the way through.
I could at first buy the alien hypothesis--she was made by Aliens. But then it really bugged me because of the way she was programmed. She was specifically programmed to a segment of human culture--the mostly American one. (Things like child care, etc and her "notes" were mostly American.) I would think Aliens studying another culture would have programmed her to observe several cultures and be able to adjust. There was nothing in the story to say she was programmed by aliens. (And by version 2.1, I would think they'd get that people around the world are very different, especially since it leveraged anthropology as a reference. And since I'm majoring in it... it irked me even more.)
Then I thought maybe humans programmed her, but there were problems there too. The "fur" and other references seemed out of place for something programmed by humans.
Programmers, while jokingly are socially inept, aren't *this* inept and have a reputation also for a "better than you" uber narcissism when it comes to programs. (Which I am NOT saying is true, since I'm poking fun at my own kind...) So I can't believe they'd release such a program like this. Especially with UI and UX people around.
Then I thought she could be an alien with a robot exterior... until they did the face plate thing. That threw that out as well. This, however, would make the most sense, because you could feed the big generalizations that all humans are like this. (Humans do it all the time, I wouldn't put it past other intelligent species.) But the story purposefully threw it out.
The problem here is that the interior logic didn't make sense. And nothing in the story seems to justify one over the other. (Which is world building issues.)
All three hypotheses down the drain, and my brain grinding all three possibilities for the course of the story, I missed a lot of the other cues of the story. Which makes me dissatisfied. I think the story should hint or at least present and show the internal logic (as well as know about programming, if talking about programming. Know anthro, if talking about Anthro...)
Core story didn't bug me so much though. Lack of fact checking did...