---
title: "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/4jgebu6c8
source_url: https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/
type: share
source: "The Dump"
author: "Denis Bolkovskis"
published: 2026-04-06T04:57:15.212Z
updated: 2026-04-06T04:57:15.216Z
tags: ["architecture", "rust", "ai-agents", "sqlite"]
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

**[The Dump](https://daily.dev/sources/thedump)** · [@denisb0](https://daily.dev/denisb0) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A developer shares a detailed, honest account of building syntaqlite — a SQLite developer toolset including a parser, formatter, and editor extensions — over three months using AI coding agents (primarily Claude Code). The post covers both where AI genuinely helped (overcoming inertia, accelerating code generation, teaching unfamiliar domains, enabling a more complete feature set) and where it hurt (addictive usage patterns, losing touch with the codebase, deferring design decisions, producing spaghetti code during a 'vibe-coding' phase that required a full rewrite in Rust). The core insight: AI excels at implementation tasks with objectively checkable answers but struggles with architecture, API design, and anything requiring taste, history, or judgment about how humans will actually use software.

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Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#sqlite](https://daily.dev/tags/sqlite)

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