sqlite
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Eight Years in the Making, Built with AI in Three Months — The Birth of SQLite Dev Tools
After eight years of hesitation, Lalit Maganti spent roughly 250 hours over three months building syntaqlite with AI coding agents. He reports on a discarded month of vibe-coding, prompt addiction, lost codebase context, and the boundary between AI-accelerated implementation and human-led design.
Your LLM Isn't Writing Correct Code — It's Writing Code That Looks Reasonable
The author benchmarked system SQLite against an LLM-generated Rust rewrite. Even though it compiled and passed all tests, primary key lookups were ~20,000x slower. The takeaway: define acceptance criteria before you talk about AI productivity.