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Don't Trust. Verify. Quality-First AI Development

AI Got Faster. But Did Working Code Increase?

Claude Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3. Models evolved, agents multiplied, processing became incredibly fast.

Flashy demos, parallel execution, autonomous coding.

But have you ever thought this while actually doing AI coding?

"While I sleep, a high-quality product gets completed, and when I wake up, it's out in the world."

...Is that actually happening?

Reality: Disappointment Every Morning

Here's my reality.

I wake up and check the code I left to AI last night. It doesn't work. Full of bugs. Hallucinations. Calling APIs that don't exist.

In the end, time spent debugging has increased compared to before using AI.

Tools competing on speed have multiplied. But have tools that produce "working code" increased?

Going All-In on Quality

So I changed my approach.

Not speed. Quality. All in.

Don't let AI run free. Control it thoroughly. Pack in obsessive quality checks.

That's how I built Cognix.

8 Quality Mechanisms

Cognix has 8 quality assurance mechanisms:

  1. Two-Layer Scope Defense - Eliminate AI "overreach"
  2. Formal Proof - Won't execute without proof
  3. Structural Integrity Check - Detect and repair invisible structural breakdown
  4. Validation Chain - Auto-eliminate framework-specific bugs
  5. Multi-Stage Generation - Maintain consistency in large projects
  6. Post-Generation Validator - Auto-complete missing files
  7. Runtime Validation - Never return non-working code
  8. 25-Type Comprehensive Review - Catch what lint misses

Details on each feature:
https://cognix-dev.github.io/cognix/

Free and Open Source

Cognix is free on GitHub. Apache 2.0 License.

If you're facing the same problem, try it out or use it as reference.

GitHub: https://github.com/cognix-dev/cognix

Install:

pipx install cognix
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About This Series

Over 9 posts, I'll explain the 8 quality features in detail.

  • Why I built them
  • What perspective I used to address each problem

I'd love to share this knowledge with you.

Next: Two-Layer Scope Defense - Preventing AI from changing code on its own

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