According to a Rainmaker insider, creator and CEO Michael Hefferon took over production of the series early on and turned it into his own personal pet project, which is noticeably similar to MP4orce (2006), an obscure animated series he had created over a decade prior. Hefferon was apparently quite apathetic about the original ReBoot (1994) and had only seen a few episodes from the first season.
The series was heavily criticized for having little connection with the original ReBoot (1994) and appearing to be a ripoff of the French animated action/drama Code Lyoko (2003). Code Lyoko's co-creator Thomas Romain even remarked on Twitter that the creators of The Guardian Code must have been big fans of Code Lyoko.
The teenage Guardians like to use various childish Megabyte puns when battling Megabyte, similar to what Enzo did in the original series.
Alan Turing, the namesake of the high school, is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.