The author spent a week using Gas Town, a multi-agent coding orchestrator, to build DoltLite — a fork of SQLite that replaces the btree storage backend with a Prolly Tree (the same data structure powering Dolt's version control). Starting with no C experience and a write-only code philosophy, the experiment produced a working SQLite fork with Git-style version control features (commits, branches, merges, diffs, cherry-picks, tags) in ~18,000 lines of agent-generated C code. All 87,000 SQLite acceptance tests pass. The total cost was $3,000 over roughly 30-40 hours of active Gas Town usage. Key success factors included having two reference implementations (Dolt and SQLite), a clean interface boundary in SQLite's btree.h, extensive existing tests, and the author's deep domain expertise guiding the agents toward correct architectural decisions.
