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# Building syntaqlite with coding agents

by [Lalit Maganti](https://lalitm.com/)

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A builder documents a failed agent-led design, a rewrite and the verification work behind a real developer tool.

Maganti traces the construction of SQLite developer tooling through an initial fragile implementation and a restart with tighter human design and review. Journal, transcript and commit references support an account of where coding agents helped and where architecture and API design still needed judgement. Treat the reported outcomes as the author’s experience, not an independently reproduced productivity result.

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Category: [Build logs](/build-logs/index.md)
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Source date: 2026-04-05
Added: 2026-10-18
Last verified: 2026-10-18
Status: ok
Prerequisites: Requires experience with parsers, systems code, test design and API tradeoffs to apply the lessons; this is not a beginner coding tutorial.
Subcategory: [external builds](/build-logs/external-builds/index.md)
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Original language: en
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