Testing

Your Database Is Lying to You: Why MySQL and MariaDB Are Not Interchangeable

📅 July 3, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

MySQL and MariaDB may share a lineage, but automated stress testing reveals critical differences in transaction semantics that can silently corrupt data under concurrency. Most teams test feature compatibility but ignore how isolation levels and deadlock handling diverge. This article explains the Hermitage project’s findings and why ‘drop-in replacement’ is a dangerous myth.

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I Don’t Know Rust, But My AI Does. And It Just Built a PHP Engine That Runs WordPress.

📅 July 3, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

A non-Rust developer used an AI to build a PHP engine that renders WordPress. 17% of PHP-src tests passed, but that was enough. The experiment reveals that the real constraint isn’t AI’s coding ability — it’s the quality of test suites. This is both thrilling and terrifying: AI lowers barriers to entry, but creates systems humans can’t maintain.

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