Deno 2.6 added --min-dep-age to keep freshly published npm versions out of installs. Testing on 2.9.6 found that any duration carrying a month or year component drops the check entirely, with exit code 0 and an empty stderr.
Reality
- Evidence66
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives20
- Confidence62
Eleven passes and one failure on a footer change turned out to predate the diff. The test built tomorrow in UTC while the function counts days in America/Los_Angeles, so it goes red from midnight UTC to about 07:00.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives25
- Confidence65
SQLite has no date type, so a crawl-run freshness query compared two differently shaped strings byte by byte and answered 1,252 when 68 was right. The defect lived only in queries typed into a console.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption15
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives35
- Confidence70
The fixtures came from the same head as the parser, so the suite could only confirm the guess it inherited. It took a live third-party API and 126 lines across five files to settle what the wire format actually was.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption15
- Hype gap−18
- Incentives45
- Confidence52
An MCP server for social publishing shipped OAuth, sixteen tools and six destructive flags. The failures that actually hurt still come back as ordinary successes.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption16
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives72
- Confidence55
A batched track call with no event name is accepted and then dropped before any destination sees it, according to an open source linter's Segment rule pack. The response code will not tell you.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives74
- Confidence45
A six month backfill can land entirely on today with no error anywhere in the response. The docs ask for ISO 8601, and a number is accepted and then overwritten at ingestion.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+9
- Incentives70
- Confidence46
Web Search on Bedrock AgentCore now takes domain allowlists and publish-date windows per call, enforced server-side. The orchestration you wrote to do this yourself is now overhead.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives88
- Confidence58