Establish whether generated software is inhabitable and maintainable by people

Establish whether AI-generated software produced under Misfit-Governed Development constitutes a structure that people can inhabit, revise, and think in, thereby addressing the experiential dimension of Alexander’s felt wholeness and habitability.

Background

The paper distinguishes formal coherence, which its aggregate-wide and cross-frame gates assess, from Alexander’s experiential notion of felt wholeness. The methodology can verify that generated parts conform to encoded architectural and specification constraints, but it does not claim to mechanize whether the resulting structure is genuinely habitable for its maintainers.

The authors argue that AI-assisted development shifts human work upward toward problem framing, specification, and governance. Whether this preserves a structure that people can understand, modify, and use as a shared architectural vernacular remains unresolved and is explicitly identified as an open question.