Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (lalitm.com) AI

Lalit Maganti describes releasing “systaqlite,” a new set of SQLite developer tools built over three months using AI coding agents. He explains why SQLite parsing—made difficult by the lack of a formal specification and limited parser APIs—was the core obstacle, and how AI helped accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and learning topics like pretty-printing and editor extension development. He also argues that AI was a net positive only when paired with tight review and strong scaffolding, after an early AI-generated codebase became too fragile and was rewritten.