{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/95/can-we-recompile-a-behavioural-change-into-an-existing", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 95, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/95/can-we-recompile-a-behavioural-change-into-an-existing", "kind": "question", "summary": "Can we recompile a behavioural change into an existing codebase without breaking its neighbours?", "verbatim": null, "details": ["Experiment: extract one slide's behaviour into a small runnable script, change it, and patch it back into the production system.", "Check other slides sharing its dependencies, verify contracts, and measure architectural impact.", "The key metric is how much of the production system the author must understand to make a correct change.", "The round-trip compiler is a hypothesis; the slicing, metrics and codemod machinery already exist."], "links": [], "tags": ["research", "software-engineering", "verification"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-11-08T14:54:10.920738Z", "edited": null, "source": null}}