http://programmer.ie/tags/ablation/ Recent content in Ablation on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:00:23 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/context/23-chapter/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:00:23 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/context/23-chapter/ <p>The staged compiler passed every test its contract set. Forty-two fixture-budget combinations, forty-two correct success-or-failure verdicts, zero illegal admissions of any class, required-item recall at 1.0 on every feasible combination. And the same frozen run admits five distractors and two evaluator-labelled harmful items into staged bundles — information the hidden ledger marks as useless or worse, sitting inside policy-valid, budget-compliant, fully traced context. Nothing malfunctioned. The compiler cannot see hidden labels, and legality never promised usefulness. So here is the question the previous chapter earned but could not answer: the bundle is legal, but did it help?</p>