David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-written Rust port of Campfire served 36,120 room-page requests a second to Rails' 217 in 37signals' own benchmark. A parity harness checks its behavior against Rails, but the numbers are company-run and stop short of production traffic.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives50
- Confidence40
Supabase raised $150 million and agreed to buy Turso, whose SQLite-compatible engine gives AI agents large numbers of small, isolated databases. The deal rests on Supabase's own count of agent-created databases, and Turso's customers now build on that bet.
Perspective Coverage
8 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 42%
- Operator
- Operator 26%
- Investor
- Investor 32%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence64
Rubrica, a self-hosted hackathon portal, has every judge in a track review the same anchor projects before its k=3 shrinkage formula adjusts any score. That shared set lets the maths tell a harsh judge from one who drew a weak batch.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−5
- Incentives35
- Confidence50
SQLite's WAL mode coordinates readers through a shared-memory index file, so every process using the database must run on the host that stores it. Tuning mounts and timeouts on NFS or SMB can quiet the symptoms without making a multi-host setup safe, a dev.to analysis argues.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
Shipshape's team-only history log would have shown hackathon teams their judges, scoring times and conflict notes despite seven passing acceptance checks. Its role tests checked who could open each page, while the leak was in what that page printed for the team members allowed in.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Both Astra + Luna runs of a SQLite job queue cleared their acceptance tests yet computed leases from a clock read taken before the write lock. An audit exposed it by holding one writer behind a barrier and advancing an injected clock during the other's wait.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
SQLite 3.53's ALTER COLUMN SET NOT NULL made six write calls in a developer's test, where the copy-and-rename rebuild made 69,843. The null check stays cheap only if the column is indexed, and Ubuntu's packaged 3.45.1 cannot parse the statement.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Schemity's developer found SQLite's usual column-type rebuild deleted all three child rows because its PRAGMA ran inside the transaction. A safe version sets the foreign-key switch before BEGIN and checks the copied values before dropping the old table.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence66
Flavio Copes matched twelve Node.js built-ins to the npm packages they replace and graded each one by its stability in the current LTS line. Node 22 still labels its SQLite driver experimental, so a server on that line can see the API change in a minor release.
Publishers:flaviocopes.com
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives20
- Confidence55
Wall-clock last-write-wins in a developer's notes app overwrote a phone edit made nine hours before it synced, though the phone's clock was right. The log shows two concurrent edits, a case the replacement hybrid logical clock, as described, still settles by keeping one.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Retried Buy clicks get the original order back in a dev.to guide that commits each order with its attempt key in one SQLite transaction. A disabled button only cuts double-clicks, and the guide's available text ends before it covers charging the card.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
FORGE's developer computed every screen of a multi-agent research app from each run's event log, so a simulated run looked identical to a real one. That let real agents replace the simulator with no UI changes, and it let a default simulated run answer the wrong question with confidence.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
Pharos Production's SQLite rehearsal passes an indexer only if its post-reorg state matches a pure replay of the chosen branch, a total of 24 at block B4. It also reruns and crashes recovery, since a caught-up checkpoint can still sit on an abandoned branch.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives50
- Confidence50
Chron flagged a 14,994-message imported session as tampered after a NUL byte in one row was hashed on write and cut off on read. Its developer's rule, hash what you can read back, applies to any system that hashes text before storing it.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap0
- Incentives30
- Confidence65
Mrsaynothing.dev's author runs a newsletter on 1,258 self-written lines of TypeScript, Svelte and SQL built around RFC 8058's one-click unsubscribe headers. Signed links cover the compliance, while aligned DKIM, the cost of skipping a paid relay, is still missing.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives30
- Confidence50
Exact-substring scoring put a developer's 700-line RAG tool at a 65% retrieval hit-rate at k=3, 13 points below what a token-overlap scorer found. The bug also made extra retrieved chunks look worthless, and a 20-question test set added 15 points of noise.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence55
Maneshwar's Go build answers questions over 1.4 million tokens of internal docs through a hosted Gemini File Search store, paying for embeddings once at indexing and giving up every retrieval knob except the markdown.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives25
- Confidence50
The program paid for critical vulnerabilities for about a year and closed because generating a plausible report now costs about a tenth of a cent while reading one still costs ten minutes of the person who knows the code.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives30
- Confidence45
Self-hosted Healthchecks v4.4 expects every cron job to check in after a successful run, and it alerts when the ping is late by more than the grace time. Getting the container up takes three settings the guides get wrong.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+9
- Incentives28
- Confidence61
Version 0.4.3 of ChaosCypher ships 54 commits and no features. Four of the fixes are queue recovery paths that held in the ordinary case and lost or duplicated work once a worker stalled or was told to stop.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
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