37signals has made hand-written code an exception handled like a Sentry bug and is rebuilding HEY as six native apps on a Rust backend. DHH's line counts come from his own slides, so the policy and the rebuild are what an engineering lead can actually judge.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives50
- Confidence40
One programmer ran the same bet on two codebases and got opposite results, which is closer to a controlled test than anything else in the agentic coding argument, and the published dates make it harder to read than it needs to be.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
The company told staff the money went to the Omacom Foundation rather than to a person, and cited Omarchy's rank among its users as the reason. Customers and employees are reading it as a decision about a person anyway.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives74
- Confidence63
Omarchy's patron ledger names twelve individuals and two companies and adds up to the dollar. The nonprofit meant to hold the trademarks has no jurisdiction, entity or headquarters on the record, and that is the part a fleet owner should be pricing.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption47
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives74
- Confidence55
The distro's manual says agents are first-class citizens but it will not pick a favourite. Lazy-loaded stubs make that neutrality cheap, until a crash needs a default agent.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives46
- Confidence44