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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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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Representing migration candidates, prerequisites, evidence, and unknowns without turning graph paths into guarantees.
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Making consequential assertions traceable, scoped, dated, and open to correction.
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Defining priced obligations and acceptance evidence when legacy behavior and dependencies are still being discovered.
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Using portfolio evidence to choose investigation and treatment priorities without letting a score choose the architecture.
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Comparing whole-life costs against a consistent baseline, including coexistence and the conditions for realizing savings.
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Using sensitivity analysis to expose fragile assumptions and choose the next useful investigation.
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