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THE APPLICATION IS SCAFFOLDING

inferenceengineer.substack.com12 min read

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As software assembly gets cheaper, the durable asset shifts from application code to a governed historical record of entities, state changes, and provenance. The key lesson is to let AI generate queries and transformations, while append-only history and deterministic validation preserve meaning, permissions, and auditable “as-of” views.