Code After Announcement

A Translation Project for the AI Era

Abstract This paper announces the Code After Series: six papers over twenty-four months. Each extends the framework of Code

I. Why Code After

Code After names a break. [1] For most of modern history, code meant deterministic instructions executed by tools that did

II. What Came Before

Code After: Law, Accounting, and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (v0.9, April 2026) is the foundation of the project.

III. The Core Thesis

The four gaps of v0.9 are instances of a more general pattern. They are what happens when Pre-Code

IV. The Widening Gap

Every paper in the series will include an update. The interval between papers is four months. That is long enough

V. The Series

Expert opinion on AI ranges from the age of abundance to existential collapse. Both extremes are widely held by serious

VI. Layered Outputs

A single register cannot serve every reader the project is built to reach. The academic reader needs citations, methodological detail,

VII. Publication Architecture and Bilingual Commitment

The publication decisions for the series follow from the constraints identified earlier. AI-era institutional change moves faster than the

VIII. The Partworks Model

The publication model the series is adopting has a precedent worth naming. Partworks publishing — the serial release of a larger

IX. The Voice

A word on register, because the writing is itself part of the argument. Frontier scholarship has accumulated habits that often

X. Why This, Why Now

The AI transition is not negotiable. It is not escapable. It is not reversible on any timescale that matters to

Appendix

Appendix A. Terms from V0.9 Used in This Paper Term Definition Categorical Gap (v0.9, Part II) The structural