AI engineering research
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Gregory Tomlinson
Current latest authority writing, papers, contracts, and replication support artifacts.
Papers
Research papers, comparisons, synthesis, and observed results.
- Pick a concrete, non-toy problem. Draft a short set of rules. Apply them to different AI agents. See whether the behavior shifted in reproducible ways.
Breaking The Loop
- Breaking the Loop v1.0LatestLarge language models generate coherent text with high fluency. They are less reliable at preserving structural integrity across long iterative edits.
Contract Centered Engineering
- Writing a production-grade system required sustained effort: design, implementation, review, integration, testing, deployment, and iteration. Producing even a single complete implementation demanded coordination across roles. Producing multiple independent implementations of the same system was rarely practical outs...
Contract Centered Iterative Stability
- This paper identifies a stability boundary in iterative AI-assisted software development.
Thesis Experimental Methodology
- In iterative development, workflows that externalize authority into a versioned contract exhibit measurably lower regression and drift than workflows that modify code directly via conversational prompts.
Why Verified Deduction Gap
- AI systems produce probabilistic outputs. Identical prompts do not guarantee identical responses. Small contextual changes alter the conditional distribution of answers. In internal ticket experiments conducted under reset conditions, one pattern became clear: the central problem was not only correctness, but struct...
Contracts
Supporting operational semantics and governing artifacts.
Artifact Projection
- Date: March 1, 2026 Status: DRAFT (DS Stabilization: engine selection; engine preflight; extracted-text canonicalization; schema alignment)
Attack Types Triage Rules
Convergence Contract
- This contract defines a deterministic, safe convergence process that synchronizes Google Docs “artifact” documents into version-controlled Markdown artifacts under artifacts/ . The system converges derived repository state to match the current set of eligible Source Documents while enforcing representation and safet...
Publishing Repository
- This contract defines the operational semantics for the Probabilistic Systems Engineering publishing repository.
Vdg Contract
- Reduce structural variance in probabilistic outputs by enforcing explicit separation of:
Replication & verification
Portable rerun material and verification support. This remains secondary to the primary reading path.
Comparison Summary
- Comparison Summary v0.2Latest1. Purpose This document summarizes replicated evidence produced under the replication stage of the research program. Its function is to compare observed run outcomes against the shared thesis, methodology, and replication standard, and to determine whether the current evidence supports or weakens the central claim...
Failure Class
- 1. Purpose This document consolidates a recurring structural failure observed across the current replicated run set. Its purpose is to name the failure mechanism and the provisional failure class supported by repeated internal replication. This is a bounded consolidation artifact, not a claim of statistical general...
Glossary
- Canonical Glossary v0.7LatestA durable artifact that governs what counts as correct for a system, workflow, or evaluation.
Methodology
- This methodology defines a reproducible experiment to measure iterative drift in AI-assisted software changes, comparing:
Program Spine
- Program Spine v0.4LatestThe purpose of this roadmap is to record the canonical spine of the research program.
Replication
- Replication v0.7LatestThis document defines the replication instruction artifact for rerunning the experiment.
Thesis
- Research Thesis v1.1LatestWhat remains under-tested is whether it preserves stability under iterative change.