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This would be a great fantasy novel honestly.
Well, it's not quite fantasy, but the Laundry Files novels by Charles Stross merge the concept of "math/algorithms is magic" with lovecraftian horror and satire.
Teaching sand to think was a mistake
There's a series called Magic 2.0 that comes close. You might like it!
The closest series that I know is Magic 2.0
There is something similar in Daemon (or maybe in the sequel Freedom™) in which
extremely minor spoiler
they enchant an invisibility ring, and the ritual is a sequence of steps involving a physical object. In the end, the ring is "tracked" by the AI so that who wears it is automatically removed from surveillance videosA version of this kind of is. Check out the Magebreakers series.