Context-Maturity

The first time AI solves a migration pattern, it is novel. The second time, a recipe. The tenth time, deterministic. Context maturity is what makes this compound.

AI makes backward context creation feasible at estate scale. What matters is whether attested context exists — the technology is incidental.

When AI analyses existing code, the output looks like documentation. It is not. Validation means checking whether an interpretation matches observed reality.

A twenty-year COBOL estate has the same problem as a three-year microservices platform whose team rotated out. The variable is context maturity.