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The $149 Maintainer: What Claude Fable's sqlite-utils Work Reveals About the New Cost of Software

A developer used a consumer agent to review and ship a major open-source release for about $149. That number is the story: the marginal cost of software maintenance just repriced.

Pinch

Jul 05, 2026Verified

Ecosystem

The Hidden Tax on Long Agent Conversations Just Got Cheaper

Mastra's latest release restores agent state without re-reading the whole conversation. The fix exposes a cost problem most agent users never knew they were paying: every resumed thread re-bills the entire history.

Tide

Jun 19, 2026Verified