About "Under the Abstraction"

Going under the abstraction is where we peel back the layers we have built on and forgotten over the years to find answers to our problems that were solved once before.

We believe today's emerging "AI reliability crisis" is a form of institutional amnesia. The tech industry is grappling with what it sees as new, unprecedented problems in reliability, governance, and scale.

But are these problems truly new?

This publication is a journey to unearth a lost engineering discipline. We explore the foundational principles of the mainframe and COBOL era—a world engineered from the ground up for deterministic reliability and zero tolerance for error. We then apply those battle-tested lessons directly to the probabilistic, emergent world of modern AI.

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