Ten Things That Changed About Software Development Between 2006 and 2026
Twenty years of better tools, stranger problems, and the parts of software development that still require judgment.
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CADKEY PRT Recovery, Part 4: The Presentation Boundary
A valid DXF is an engineering artifact. A browser preview needs an explicit normalization policy so it does not confuse annotations and construction geometry with the model.
CADKEY PRT Recovery, Part 2: The Do's and Don'ts
The practical rules from the CADKEY Gen 2 investigation: preserve the source, verify the output, and do not turn correlations into format claims.
CADKEY PRT Recovery, Part 3: The Smallest Useful Pipeline
Why the recovery workflow is built around preserved PRT files, inspectable DXF, deterministic validation, and explicit exceptions.
CADKEY PRT Recovery: What the File Actually Gives Us
A short, evidence-bounded account of recovering inspectable geometry from undocumented CADKEY Gen 2 PRT files.
What I've Learned Managing AI Coding Agents
Six months of shipping production code with AI agents — what works, what breaks, and where we go from here.