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/encarta-revival-where-ai-written-code-breaks/ https://singular-state.com/experiments/encarta-revival-where-ai-written-code-breaks/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. 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/articles/cutover-reversibility-cheap-generation/ https://singular-state.com/articles/cutover-reversibility-cheap-generation/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Cheap code lowers the cost of building the replacement. It does not lower the cost of being wrong about the legacy behaviour, and sent messages do not un-send. https://singular-state.com/articles/endowment-effect-parity-plus/ https://singular-state.com/articles/endowment-effect-parity-plus/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The behavioural evidence is contested, which is the argument for checking the workflow first. A replacement judged on new capability gets judged on missing capability instead. https://singular-state.com/articles/mvp-against-a-working-baseline/ https://singular-state.com/articles/mvp-against-a-working-baseline/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A restricted replacement justified as an MVP while failing the operational needs of the users required to adopt it. The diagnosis is the removed work, not the feature count. https://singular-state.com/articles/shortest-path-to-value/ https://singular-state.com/articles/shortest-path-to-value/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Waters' name for a legacy-replacement roadmap that delivers useful capability while limiting disruption. It answers a different question from an MVP, and the two coexist in one programme. https://singular-state.com/articles/walking-skeleton-tracer-bullet-strangler-fig/ https://singular-state.com/articles/walking-skeleton-tracer-bullet-strangler-fig/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Three patterns that build a thin end-to-end path before breadth. Two of them overlap and the third is a different kind of thing, because it has to keep an incumbent running alongside.