CommentsTechnical review and engineering monograph, 314 pages, 30 figures. Includes an evidence audit, a companion research artifact with 206 reliability records, and runnable protocols for evaluating and operating AI coding agents. August 2026. Source, companion, and reusable protocols: https://github.com/sjarmak/engineering-reliable-coding-agents
Specification-first convergence with an AI coding agent: a case study of dismantling a core architectural invariant across 189 files in a 717k-line codebase with no test oracle and no human code review
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