Michael Rothrock

Research

Documenting patterns and findings from AI-assisted software development.

Reliability Is Not a Model Property

A framework for engineering trust from unreliable AI agents, grown from empirical logs

AI Agents Aren't a Hot Mess — If You Don't Let Them Be

5,109 review gates analyzed to test Anthropic's incoherence hypothesis

543 Hours of Autonomous Work in 97 Days

165 releases shipped with AI agents doing the heavy lifting

Music to Code By

Neuroscience-informed music prompts evolved with genetic algorithms