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How Trinity Works: Design Parameters

Define a value once and use it in every requirement and test that depends on it. Change it, and the Used by list shows every item it touches, while each product variant resolves the same requirement to its own number.

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Engineers who write requirements for flight computers, autonomous vehicles, and spacecraft headed to Mars are often managing those requirements with a process that has no requirements of its own. Most teams haven't engineered how they manage their own requirements. Not because they don't see the problem. Because they've tried to fix it, and what they found was worse.

Engineering

Matt Maclaine

May 8, 2026

The Excel Sheet Shall: Why Engineering Teams Keep Coming Back to Spreadsheets

Therac-25, 1985. A radiation therapy machine killed six patients. The cause: a shared memory flag that a programmer assumed would be set instantaneously. A timing assumption, undocumented and unchecked. Working exactly as programmed. That was the problem.

Engineering

Neel Shah

April 30, 2026

AI and the Resurrection of Systems Engineering

Trace.Space is launching Space Agent: the first AI agent built from the ground up for systems engineers. It lives inside the platform, works directly with your data model, and handles core engineering tasks 10 to 100 times faster than doing them by hand.

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Janis Vavere

April 2, 2026