{
  "id": "bleeding-edge.threshold",
  "term": "bleeding edge",
  "sense": "threshold",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "innovation",
  "domain": "technology",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "The wall where a thing can no longer be maintained because the parameter has moved beyond what the model can hold.",
  "folk_gloss": "the most advanced stage of development, often with risks involved",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "model.representation"
    ],
    "interaction": "self-model.reflexive",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bleeding"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The F-35 fighter jet program exceeded its development budget and timeline, reaching a point where software integration could not keep pace with hardware changes.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed when risk exposure surpassed the firm's capacity to model or contain it.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider's superconducting magnets quenched repeatedly during early operation, exposing limits in thermal stability controls.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "bleeding edge"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the moving wall"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bleeding-edge.threshold"
}