5th July 2026
I wrote about the sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 release a couple of weeks ago. Since we only have Claude Fable on our Max subscriptions for a few more days, I decided to see if it could help me get to a 4.0 stable release that I felt truly comfortable about, since I try to keep to SemVer and like my incompatible major versions to be as rare as possible.
I started with this prompt, in Claude Code for web on my iPhone:
Final review before shipping a stable 4.0 release - very important to spot any last minute things that would be a breaking change if we fix them later
Here’s that initial report it created for me. There were some significant problems that I hadn’t myself encountered yet—5 that Fable categorized as “release blockers”. Here’s the worst of the bunch:
