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/experiments/four-experiments-in-ai-assisted-reconstruction/ https://singular-state.com/experiments/four-experiments-in-ai-assisted-reconstruction/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://singular-state.com/experiments/grading-a-reconstruction-against-a-sealed-answer-key/ https://singular-state.com/experiments/grading-a-reconstruction-against-a-sealed-answer-key/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://singular-state.com/experiments/hal-s-reconstruction-from-a-degraded-spec/ https://singular-state.com/experiments/hal-s-reconstruction-from-a-degraded-spec/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://singular-state.com/experiments/verne-nautilus-simulator-narrative-as-specification/ https://singular-state.com/experiments/verne-nautilus-simulator-narrative-as-specification/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://singular-state.com/articles/com-components-across-the-32-bit-and-64-bit-boundary/ https://singular-state.com/articles/com-components-across-the-32-bit-and-64-bit-boundary/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How COM process boundaries determine architecture compatibility and what activation tests must prove. https://singular-state.com/articles/dbf-tables-memo-files-and-the-meaning-of-a-record/ https://singular-state.com/articles/dbf-tables-memo-files-and-the-meaning-of-a-record/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why DBF migration must account for format variants, memo references, deleted records, and application interpretation. https://singular-state.com/articles/extracting-a-vb6-function-across-a-com-boundary/ https://singular-state.com/articles/extracting-a-vb6-function-across-a-com-boundary/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Choosing a coherent VB6 extraction boundary while preserving COM consumers, transactions, and deployment. https://singular-state.com/articles/from-foxpro-dbf-files-to-a-relational-database-preserving-meaning/ https://singular-state.com/articles/from-foxpro-dbf-files-to-a-relational-database-preserving-meaning/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Combining FoxPro file interpretation, target schema design, client connectivity, and business reconciliation. https://singular-state.com/articles/powerbuilder-replacement-and-the-transaction-hidden-in-the-client/ https://singular-state.com/articles/powerbuilder-replacement-and-the-transaction-hidden-in-the-client/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Preserving PowerBuilder save semantics across DataWindows, database transactions, client buffers, and replacement APIs. https://singular-state.com/articles/replacing-a-mainframe-file-extract-with-a-service-interface/ https://singular-state.com/articles/replacing-a-mainframe-file-extract-with-a-service-interface/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Preserving a host extract’s encoding, cutoff, completeness, and consumer semantics when introducing an API. https://singular-state.com/articles/where-oracle-forms-business-logic-ends-and-an-api-begins/ https://singular-state.com/articles/where-oracle-forms-business-logic-ends-and-an-api-begins/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Recovering Forms event logic and execution context before exposing database operations through an API.