Research notes on deployed-software recovery, AI code-change control, and evidence.https://kalukode.com/en-ushttps://kalukode.com/journal/what-we-are-looking-for-in-our-first-design-partners/https://kalukode.com/journal/what-we-are-looking-for-in-our-first-design-partners/Kalu Kode is pre-revenue and has not validated market fit. We are looking for organizations with real, authorized capture, recovery, or AI-refactor problems.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/how-we-evaluate-a-product-that-verifies-ai/https://kalukode.com/journal/how-we-evaluate-a-product-that-verifies-ai/KodeProof cannot use its own verdict as the sole proof that it works. We need frozen campaigns, independent graders, calibrated mutations, and reports that include false blocks.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/six-generations-of-source-recovery-architecture/https://kalukode.com/journal/six-generations-of-source-recovery-architecture/Our recovery system evolved by removing one false assumption at a time: permanent opacity, reconstruction from description, recovery-shaped workspaces, and broad agent handoff.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/what-a-source-recovery-assessment-should-tell-you/https://kalukode.com/journal/what-a-source-recovery-assessment-should-tell-you/Before committing to a recovery, an organization should know what evidence exists, which route applies, what can be made independent, and what remains risky.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/honest-uncertainty-is-a-product-feature/https://kalukode.com/journal/honest-uncertainty-is-a-product-feature/A recovery or verification system earns trust by separating what it proved, what it inferred, what it could not observe, and what it refused to change.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/the-model-should-decide-the-system-should-edit/https://kalukode.com/journal/the-model-should-decide-the-system-should-edit/AI is valuable for semantic judgment. Mutation authority should remain with source-aware, preview-bound, rollback-capable tools.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/build-green-is-not-behavior-green/https://kalukode.com/journal/build-green-is-not-behavior-green/Compilation is necessary, but it cannot tell you whether a refactor changed initialization order, runtime state, layout, message contracts, or a user journey.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/why-ai-agents-rename-the-wrong-things/https://kalukode.com/journal/why-ai-agents-rename-the-wrong-things/Semantic cleanup is not a global search-and-replace problem. The difficult part is distinguishing local meaning from public contracts, serialized keys, asset identities, and other protected surfaces.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/what-a-bundler-hides/https://kalukode.com/journal/what-a-bundler-hides/A production bundle is not one author’s code. Reliable recovery must separate first-party logic, third-party packages, modified vendor code, and bundler runtime before cleanup begins.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/recovery-starts-with-capture/https://kalukode.com/journal/recovery-starts-with-capture/A raw agent cannot recover behavior it never observed. Reliable source recovery begins by preserving the deployed application as a donor and replayable evidence surface.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/shipped-software-is-not-source-code/https://kalukode.com/journal/shipped-software-is-not-source-code/A working application can survive while its maintainable source disappears. Understanding the difference is the first step in software ownership recovery.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/abstention-is-an-engineering-output/https://kalukode.com/journal/abstention-is-an-engineering-output/When evidence is contradictory, stale, unsupported, or too weak for the requested risk, refusing to mutate is a useful and actionable result.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/chat-transcript-is-not-a-system-of-record/https://kalukode.com/journal/chat-transcript-is-not-a-system-of-record/Agent conversations are useful for reasoning, but durable software work needs source-bound plans, receipts, validator results, and explicit state transitions.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/software-evidence-has-a-supply-chain/https://kalukode.com/journal/software-evidence-has-a-supply-chain/Capture, recovery, software memory, and change control are different products because each owns a different transformation of evidence.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/freshness-is-part-of-a-software-fact/https://kalukode.com/journal/freshness-is-part-of-a-software-fact/A report can be correct for the state that produced it and unsafe for the state in front of you. Evidence needs identity, dependencies, and expiry conditions.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/recovery-and-refactoring-share-a-trust-problem/https://kalukode.com/journal/recovery-and-refactoring-share-a-trust-problem/One reconstructs maintainable source from shipped artifacts; the other transforms known source. Both can produce plausible code that lacks evidence of behavioral control.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kalukode.com/journal/why-kalu-kode/https://kalukode.com/journal/why-kalu-kode/Deployed truth can disappear, source ownership can be lost, and AI can change code faster than teams can safely trust it. Kalu Kode is building the evidence layer across that lifecycle.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT