https://singular-state.com Advanced technical expertise for feasibility, prototyping and modernization. We build the working pilot and ramp up your team to take it forward. en-US https://singular-state.com/articles/evaluation-set-survives-the-kill/ https://singular-state.com/articles/evaluation-set-survives-the-kill/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Killing a prototype destroys the system and preserves the encoded definition of correct behaviour. Salvage is a forward comparison, not a rescue justified by what was already spent. https://singular-state.com/articles/nobody-plans-the-end-of-the-chain/ https://singular-state.com/articles/nobody-plans-the-end-of-the-chain/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Transferred systems get retired by a team that did not build them, using documentation written for a handover years earlier. It is the least-instrumented stage and the one where the original evidence is worth most.