Cicero frames software as a field journal of applied silicon: a dominant reading column, annotated margins, and figure plates printed in oxblood and ink.
The Anneal-IV plate arrives half-corrected. Inspection shifts from catching faults to confirming their absence — a quieter, more literate kind of looking that changes the economics of the whole line.
Nine logged runs, median yield held above the threshold that once ended a line. The ledger is published raw, beside the paper.
Raking light is the oldest instrument in the room. The machine flags the obvious; the inspector finds the one it forgives.
“Cite nothing you cannot show. Every claim arrives as a figure, beneath a rule, in oxblood and ink.”
Print and digital, cited by figure, printed as gravure. Margin notes delivered with every dispatch.