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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How environment policies and credential changes can alter deployed behavior without changing application source.
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How easier access to retained behavior can increase the obligations that a later replacement must satisfy.
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How resolving recovery uncertainty can alter modernization timing and the credibility of retention alternatives.
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The long-term dependency on schemas, code meanings, and operational knowledge after an application is retired.
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How merging applications can reduce duplicate work while changing shared failure and recovery consequences.
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How missing evidence can shape portfolio selection before substantive risk and value are compared.
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How a supplier can absorb support work while critical knowledge remains concentrated in a single person.
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How conversion-based progress measures can discourage elimination unless acceptance rewards the required outcome.
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How automating transcription can remove an undocumented check, and how to distinguish that risk from unnecessary manual work.
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A conditional shift from implementation throughput to evidence and decision capacity as the limiting stage.
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