A dev.to walkthrough proposes MemoryBench: four tasks, ten metrics and a million-fact store, so buyers can measure recall, latency and write cost themselves before signing.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives30
- Confidence35
The FAISS-plus-BM25 retrieval in this writeup does address vocabulary mismatch, but the agent loop around it ran at over 213 seconds a step on CPU, and that figure decided the deployment, not the retrieval design.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives38
- Confidence56
The estimate was 30,000 to 40,000 credits per simulation, the gateway needed only three read patterns, and the store already holding tenant rows could serve all three, so tenancy became an argument every query passes.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption17
- Hype gap−14
- Incentives52
- Confidence44
The provider cache discounts a repeated prefix, and the worst case is bounded arithmetic. The semantic cache deletes the call outright, but a miss there means a wrong answer, not a rounding error, so the threshold sweep matters more than the hit rate.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives34
- Confidence54
Scenematic's out-of-distribution gate sends its least understood prompts straight to the expensive render. The logic holds up; the harness meant to prove it still simulates the scores.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence45
A dev.to writeup drops vector stores for a SQLite table with tag and timestamp columns. Its own numbers put the practical ceiling at a million rows, not a hundred million.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence33
A CQADupStack benchmark reports dense retrieval beating BM25 by more on identifier-bearing queries than on the rest, because the identifier is often absent from the documents that answer them.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives42
- Confidence54
A static site distilled its embedding model into an 8,900-word lookup table and ranks 796 documents in single-digit milliseconds in the browser. The trade-offs are published too.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption12
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives34
- Confidence46
Hugging Face now hosts 2.96 million public model repositories. The ones anyone actually pulls number in the tens of thousands, and the monthly parameter ceiling has been set in China all year.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+9
- Incentives68
- Confidence48