AI engineering research
Probabilistic Systems Engineering
Gregory Tomlinson · About · Research
An evolving research corpus on AI-assisted software work: omitted scope, blended inference, default fill-in, VDG, preserved truth, and where authority actually does and does not live.
Current anchors
The live center is failure visibility in one response or across change, plus the narrower research boundary that survived after the stronger contract-authority claim failed.
When AI Collapses Fact and Assumption v1.4.1
Blended inference is the baseline response mode of LLMs. Smooth prose is the goal. In software, that smoothness can hide the boundary between grounded analysis and inferred assumptions.
PaperMaking AI Omitted Scope Visible with VDG v3.14
I designed an experiment to demonstrate omitted scope using a caching system in Python. It’s just one file.
PaperContract Authority Under AI v0.7.3
The strongest contract-authority claim, the research boundary, and the narrower result that survived.
Protocols & Contracts
Explicit source-of-truth artifacts and response-structure documents that support the papers without pretending to be the final live authority surface.