Architecture
Mar 14, 2026
Why Compiler Errors Are Not Enough: The Case for Staged Validation
A patch that compiles is not a patch that works. We walk through the four-stage validation pipeline and why each stage catches bugs the previous one missed.
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Research
Mar 7, 2026
Semantic Realignment: The Class of Kernel Changes That Silently Break Drivers
Some kernel changes don't touch function signatures at all. The compiler stays quiet. The driver loads. Then something goes wrong at runtime.
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Benchmark
Feb 28, 2026
Building DRIFTBENCH: Turning Kernel Git History Into a Reproducible Evaluation Corpus
Evaluating kernel migration tools requires real cases, not synthetic ones. How we mined git history to build a deterministic benchmark.
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Engineering
Feb 21, 2026
LPA vs GMA: When to Use a Fast-Path Agent and When to Escalate
Not all kernel API changes are equal. KDRIFT uses two agents optimized for different complexity levels — and the escalation policy between them.
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Research
Feb 14, 2026
KERN Models: Teaching LLMs Why Kernel APIs Change
Frontier models are good at kernel migration. But they're expensive and slow. KERN models are domain-specific, fine-tuned on kernel evolution trajectories.
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Business
Feb 7, 2026
The Cost of Delayed Kernel Upgrades
Every month your kernel lags behind upstream, your CVE exposure window grows. The economics of kernel migration and why automation changes the equation.
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