Building a Unified Model of Software Systems
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A concrete approach to representing software systems for machine reasoning.
Blog / Research 01/20/2026 Research Building a Unified Model of Software Systems A concrete approach to representing software systems for machine reasoning. Shreyas Iyer and Thibaud Roy 11 min Every complex software system has two representations. One is the formal model: code, configurations, and documentation. The other lives in the heads of engineers who've built and operated it. This second model is far more valuable. It captures what actually talks to what, what changed recently, and how failures really propagate. It forms slowly through experience. No single engineer carries the full pic
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