Research edition · 2026

Reliability-first engineering for AI-assisted software development.

CORTEX is a governed method that treats generated code as a candidate artifact — bounded context, explicit quality criteria, provenance, and review. Reliability is an emergent property of the whole process, not the model.

Author Lead: Wang Leung Yuen · info@cortexdesignbook.cc

CORTEX book cover — Reliability-first engineering for AI-assisted software development

Reliability

Treat generated code as a candidate artifact — bounded context, explicit criteria, provenance.

Governance

Policy-as-code, review gates, and executable institutional memory across the workflow.

Applied system

Templates, graders, and playbooks that translate the method into daily engineering practice.

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Author Lead
Wang Leung Yuen
Office
East Lansing, Michigan
Edition
Research Monograph Edition, 2026