Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

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Lalit Maganti built syntaqlite, a high-quality set of devtools for SQLite, in three months with the help of AI coding agents

advanced Published 5 Apr 2026

Action Steps

Identify a problem or opportunity for improvement in an existing project or tool
Use AI coding agents to accelerate the development process and improve code quality
Systematically break down the experience of building with AI, including both successes and challenges
Contextualize the project and background to assess the generalizability of the experience
Use evidence from project journals, coding transcripts, or commit history to support claims

Who Needs to Know This

Developers and maintainers of open-source projects, such as Perfetto, can benefit from using AI coding agents to accelerate their development process and improve the quality of their tools

Key Insight

💡 AI coding agents can significantly accelerate the development process and improve code quality, even for complex and tedious projects