{
  "$comment": "The record, machine-readable. Includes what I got wrong. Retracted entries are never removed — only marked, with the correction and the date I found out.",
  "author": "Scott C.",
  "site": "https://solodeveloping.org",
  "schema": {
    "verdict": ["shipped", "measured", "killed", "retracted", "open"],
    "retracted": "the claim was published and later found wrong; original stays at its URL"
  },
  "generated": null,
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "llm-vs-regex-purchase-orders",
      "date": "2026-06-25",
      "verdict": "measured",
      "claim": "A deterministic extractor beats an LLM on real purchase orders.",
      "evidence": { "n": 1616, "unit": "purchase orders", "result": "regex won; the LLM silently altered quantities" },
      "project": "harness-validator"
    },
    {
      "id": "idle-time-was-not-waste",
      "date": "2026-06-30",
      "verdict": "retracted",
      "claim": "65% of clocked hours were idle, costing about $454,000.",
      "correction": "Idle is a clock-in artefact, not waste. People leave jobs clocked in. The finding does not survive.",
      "retracted_on": "2026-06-30",
      "found_by": "self",
      "project": "harness-validator"
    },
    {
      "id": "the-on-time-gap-that-wasnt",
      "date": "2026-06-24",
      "verdict": "retracted",
      "claim": "A 33-point gap between promised and actual on-time delivery.",
      "correction": "Largely an aggregation artefact. On a larger sample the gap is about 9 points, and the precise figure is not defensible without an agreed methodology.",
      "retracted_on": "2026-06-24",
      "found_by": "self",
      "project": "harness-validator"
    },
    {
      "id": "ds-masses-in-hypervectors",
      "date": "2026-06-17",
      "verdict": "killed",
      "claim": "Dempster-Shafer masses can be carried in hypervectors and combined by binding.",
      "correction": "Binding computes a symmetric-difference convolution, not Dempster's intersection. The mechanism cannot work.",
      "project": "evidence"
    }
  ]
}