A developer's GraphRAG build turns Thailand's 96-section PDPA into a 190-node graph so an agent can walk from Section 26 to the fines that cite it. The published part argues the vector-search gap from vocabulary and reports no measured recall figures.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives25
- Confidence45
An Apache-2.0 memory layer for coding agents returns a candidate only when several signals agree, and it labels every answer STRONG, WEAK or MISS so the calling agent has to branch on confidence before reusing an old fix.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence52
GoodBarber's engineering lead reconciled 5,892 posts across seven language blogs with gemma2:27b on one MacBook. What makes it work is the retrieval layer that cuts every decision down to twenty summaries.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives65
- Confidence52
Open Walnut patched QMD's compiled output 15 times from the outside, then found that the one stage it needed to change, tokenization, lived in the engine core. Writing its own engine again took eleven days.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption45
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives55
- Confidence55
Langhuan's first retrieval benchmark found the keyword channel at 0.0000 recall and hybrid search matching vector-only digit for digit. The labeled data came free.
Reality
- Evidence61
- Adoption14
- Hype gap−6
- Incentives52
- Confidence55
A residency policy that barred even embedding calls from leaving the building forced a full local RAG stack. The hardware math turns out to be the easy part.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives46
- Confidence33
A developer's noise filter and reranker fixed a retrieval bug and exposed a worse one. If ordinary retrieved text can hijack a prompt, injection is a property of your corpus, not your threat model.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives28
- Confidence52