Carl Sverre ruined my day. And it was glorious

At the BugBash conference on software reliability, a pivotal moment occurred when Carl Sverre, an AI specialist, introduced two new libraries: Hegel and Bombadil. The author, who had been dealing with complexities in developing the Turso project—a rewrite of the SQLite fork libSQL—found Hegel particularly transformative. Hegel's ability to define system properties and automatically generate tests helped identify and fix five bugs in the Turso database driver in minutes, boosting confidence to ship the new software. Despite the excitement of resolving these issues, the author missed the opportunity to engage with the conference and its attendees, leading to mixed feelings about the experience and Carl's unintentional disruption of their day.