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All 1.5 million databases running on Manus are hosted on TiDB, most used once and then discarded, reflecting a shift in primary database users from humans to AI agents. The article analyzes this trend from four angles: who is building them, the scale, the cost advantages, and the trade-offs. Sources include PingCAP press releases and Huang Dongxu's blog.
Security team FULCRUMSEC has publicly disclosed a large-scale data breach at PingCAP TiDB Cloud. Approximately 10.6 TB of data (including the control plane, customer SQL, API keys, source code, etc.) was exfiltrated continuously for nearly two months without being detected.
The author discusses entrepreneurial motivation, growth, and company taste in open-source software companies, using Pingcap and Zilliz as examples, and questions the idea that 'if people under 25 don't use your product, you're finished.'
The article documents a sharing at the Data & AI Meetup about evolving from traditional programming to an AI software factory, and mentions PingCAP's enterprise agent collaboration product LOOP.