--- title: "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI" url: https://daily.dev/posts/eight-years-of-wanting-three-months-of-building-with-ai-fxpxl1dnh source_url: https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/ type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2026-04-05T15:53:34.746Z updated: 2026-04-05T15:54:03.565Z tags: ["architecture", "rust", "ai-agents", "sqlite"] reading_time: 21 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 21 min read · 1 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I Let AI Write My Code for 7 Days. Days 1–6 Were Magic. Day 7 Nearly Broke Me.](https://daily.dev/posts/i-let-ai-write-my-code-for-7-days-days-1-6-were-magic-day-7-nearly-broke-me--ohycaidt0) · Medium · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [building sqlite with a small swarm](https://daily.dev/posts/building-sqlite-with-a-small-swarm-pbrqz4xyf) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Writing code is so over](https://daily.dev/posts/writing-code-is-so-over-fcb6elaf8) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 1 comments - [I Tried Building a Real App With AI. It Took a Year.](https://daily.dev/posts/i-tried-building-a-real-app-with-ai-it-took-a-year--xundx9m4q) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- 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) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/eight-years-of-wanting-three-months-of-building-with-ai-fxpxl1dnh)