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White Paper · Expected May 2026
Forthcoming

The Subprocess Contract: How Standard Software-Engineering Practices, Naively Applied to LLMs, Accelerate Tech Debt You Can't See

The LLM praises your clean, enterprise-grade code while the bill quietly compounds — five load-bearing joints show what standard practices miss.

Abstract

The LLM praises your clean, enterprise-grade code while the bill quietly compounds. Five load-bearing joints in a real codebase show what standard practices miss when the actor inside the system is non-deterministic, metered, and fallible.

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This paper is in the pipeline. Expected publication: May 2026.

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