2026 Update

🤖 AI Usage

• Disclosure: State where AI (e.g., LLMs) was used for artifact (code, logic, text) generation and modification.

• Verification: Audit all AI-generated artifacts for errors.

• Prompts & Instructions: Archive prompts used to generate critical artifacts, like code or analysis workflows.

📦 Software Environment

• Isolation: Work with dedicated virtual environments to enforce dependency control.

• Pinned Dependencies: Use lockfiles to ensure exact version parity.

• Virtualization: Containerize workflows to encapsulate the software environment.

🔌 Hardware Context

• Specs: Document GPU model, VRAM, and driver versions (e.g., CUDA).

• Virtualization: Use VMs to get a full documentation of the hardware stack used.

🧪 Verification & Consistency

• Unit Tests: Write tests for functions to ensure logic stays consistent.

• Fixed Seeds: Set and record seeds for all random number generators.