Couple Both Ways: bidirectional checks against silent drift
The author proposes a "bidirectional manifest coupling" pattern to detect silent drift between related artifacts. This pattern involves creating checks that verify agreement between two linked items, ensuring that changes in one are reflected in the other. By checking in both directions, the system can catch discrepancies that might otherwise go unnoticed, such as a diagram asserting a function call that doesn't exist in the actual code. AI
IMPACT This pattern could improve the reliability of AI development by ensuring consistency between AI model specifications and their implementations.