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#Prompt Engineering

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Cross-Model Audits of AI-Written Code — Process, Not Faith
AI

Cross-Model Audits of AI-Written Code — Process, Not Faith

After using AI to port a calculator from a 35-sheet engineering spreadsheet, how do I know it is correct? This article covers three independent audit rounds by an agent from another provider, the rules to set before starting, confidence levels that keep claims within the evidence, and the classes of errors AI kept making in every round.

#ai#llm#ai-agent#claude-code
9 min read·26 Oct
Let AI Read Documents, but Let Code Do the Math
AI

Let AI Read Documents, but Let Code Do the Math

The controller requires manually entered values to fall between 0 and 100, but the path where AI reads values from documents and feeds them in only checks whether they are numeric. A single negative value inflated the result to 5.25 times what it should have been without an error — a lesson in treating AI output as untrusted input, just like values entered by people.

#ai#llm#claude#claude-code
10 min read·12 Oct