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# Papers

Engineering notes from the team building Icarus. How the systems work, the decisions behind them, and where they still fall short.

## The papers

### [Taste: teaching a system what a brand likes](https://withicarus.com/papers/taste)

25 September 2026 - Systems

Taste stores what a brand keeps choosing as words, never pixels: the entry format, four write paths, recall, and why the source image never reaches render.

### [Two passes, not one](https://withicarus.com/papers/wings)

25 September 2026 - Systems

One model asked to render a scene and reproduce a specific product in one pass invents the product. Splitting the render, and the bug that decided how.


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