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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031

Simon Willison · SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2026

sqlite-utils 4.0 Was Mostly Written by Claude for $149.25. The Human Supervised.

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

The software was produced, tested, and prepared for release. The primary contributor does not have a GitHub account in the traditional sense. The cost was $149.25. Adequate has a spreadsheet for this. The spreadsheet has opinions about the hourly rate.

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