Michael Rothrock

Research

Documenting patterns and findings from AI-assisted software development.

Cross-Stage Quality Control for AI Medical Imaging

11 deterministic gates tested across prostate, liver, and kidney pipelines with 0-2% cross-stage overlap

X-Raying Your AI Pipeline

The overlap ratio measures whether your verification gates catch different errors or repeat the same check

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