# Case Studies in “Making Software Meaningful”

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**Created:** [August 31, 2026, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/case-studies-in-making-software-meaningful/320 "2026-08-31T07:01:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![xlawin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.essenceofsoftware.com/xlawin/32/145_2.png) [@xlawin](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/u/xlawin)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2026, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/case-studies-in-making-software-meaningful/320/1 "2026-08-31T07:01:39Z")

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I noticed that _Making Software Meaningful_ ([https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11051v1](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11051v1)) mentions three interesting real-world experiences—for example:

> “The PhD student in a micro-technologies lab who applied our TCAD workflow reported weeks’ worth of progress in just a few hours.”

As these fascinating examples are discussed only briefly, I was wondering whether the authors might have plans to share more detailed accounts of them in the future.

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**Author:** ![dnj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.essenceofsoftware.com/dnj/32/17_2.png) [@dnj](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/u/dnj)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.essenceofsoftware.com/t/case-studies-in-making-software-meaningful/320/2 "2026-09-08T03:25:26Z")

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Hi @xlawin – welcome to the forum! That section of the paper is based on a study done by Barish Namazov which is described in more detail in this paper: [ICML Behavioral Code: Legible, Auditable Loops for Autonomous Agents](https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/67896). It doesn’t talk about the TCAD example in particular, but it does explain the general idea.