- Amazon’s “deterministic simulation testing” for distributed systems was highlighted: a lightweight method that runs a distributed protocol on a single-threaded simulator, giving the test framework full control over thread scheduling, timing, and message order so developers can deterministically replay or fuzz the exact sequences that previously triggered bugs.

- A call was made for generative-image pipelines (diffusion or otherwise) that excel at **incremental revision**—i.e., starting from a fixed seed and making controlled, step-wise changes rather than full re-generation.

- Three open-source CAD/geometry projects were shared as promising building blocks for hardware or bio-hardware design:
  – **Anvil** (https://github.com/paramatrix-dev/anvil)  
  – **opencascade-rs** (https://github.com/bschwind/opencascade-rs) – Rust bindings for Open CASCADE  
  – **Fornjot** (https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot) – a code-first, next-generation CAD kernel in Rust