Stars Aren't Benchmarks: How a 10-Star Memory Tool Out-Scored the 60k-Star One
Open source has a discovery problem, and it isn't search. It's that attention gets mistaken for quality . A GitHub star costs one click. A benchmark run costs days or weeks of careful work. Yet when a developer goes looking for a tool, the star count decides what they try first. That decides which…
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- 2026-11-09 12:00 · DEV Community — AI
Stars Aren't Benchmarks: How a 10-Star Memory Tool Out-Scored the 60k-Star One