Source work
The Frog Prince
Adaptation proposal
A · Faithful to the source's premise, transposed into an AI world
Adaptation note
Faithful to the source's original premise — a promise, once made, must be honored when its condition is met, regardless of whether honoring it is now convenient or wanted — transposed directly into an AI world: a system's compatibility wrapper was promised removal once a legacy client's migration completed; the migration finishes eighteen months late and the promise sits unenforced for months more, until someone follows through on the inconvenient audit anyway.
Adapted into
AI Fairy Tale · Commitment
Shim's Promise
A design document promised a system's compatibility wrapper would come off once a legacy client finished migrating. The client finished eighteen months late, and the promise sat unenforced for months more, until someone did the unglamorous audit nobody had asked her to do.