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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How COM process boundaries determine architecture compatibility and what activation tests must prove.
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Why DBF migration must account for format variants, memo references, deleted records, and application interpretation.
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Choosing a coherent VB6 extraction boundary while preserving COM consumers, transactions, and deployment.
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Combining FoxPro file interpretation, target schema design, client connectivity, and business reconciliation.
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Preserving PowerBuilder save semantics across DataWindows, database transactions, client buffers, and replacement APIs.
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Preserving a host extract’s encoding, cutoff, completeness, and consumer semantics when introducing an API.
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Recovering Forms event logic and execution context before exposing database operations through an API.
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