Head of R&D — Key Questions

Documentation status: guide — see Maturity and evidence.

• Which experimental capabilities are candidates for a stable public contract?
• What test evidence is required before changing documentation status from roadmap to architecture or reference?
• Are benchmarks separated from correctness and compatibility tests?
• Can a new accelerator/backend fail safely and fall back without changing semantics?
• Are persistent-data changes migration-compatible?
• Do source-level innovations leak private types into generated SDKs?
• Are research outputs reproducible enough to become product capabilities?
• Is there a clear owner for deprecating experiments that should not become permanent maintenance burden?