The Five Laws of Post-Deterministic Software

Law 1 - Intent Precedes Implementation

Start from required outcomes and constraints. Implementation is generated and selected, not assumed in advance.

Law 2 - Reasoning Must Be Constrained

No generated action reaches production state without deterministic invariant validation.

Law 3 - Invariants Define the System

Procedures may change. Constitutional rules must remain explicit, enforceable, and observable.

Law 4 - Generation Requires Evaluation

All generated artifacts and actions require layered evaluation:

• invariant checks
• tests
• monitoring
• human judgment where risk warrants

Law 5 - Developers Govern Environment, Not Just Specify Behaviour

Developer leverage is measured by safe capability throughput and the integrity of the environment they build, not by code volume.