Singular State / Experiments
We rebuild systems whose documentation is gone, degraded, or never existed. These are the experiments we ran on our own methods to establish what that costs and where it fails.
An agent built a Tauri desktop application end to end. The pure logic was correct on the first or second attempt. Every defect that mattered sat at a boundary no headless test can reach.
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A scanned NASA specification, a novel, the memory of a product, and a sealed algorithm. What four controlled rebuilds establish about where AI-assisted reconstruction of legacy systems actually fails.
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A compressor reconstructed from behaviour alone, graded against an answer key sealed until the work was frozen. The decoder scored 100 percent and the encoder 8.3 percent on the same format.
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HAL/S runs again: twelve preserved Shuttle-era programs, verified value-for-value against an independent interpreter. The load-bearing human work was refusing a majority vote between OCR engines.
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Verne's submarine crushes at 340 metres against a narrated 16,000. Extracting a falsifiable spec from fiction, and what it takes to trust numbers an AI produced when no external oracle exists.
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