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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