I'm not impressed:

- if you're not passing SQLite's open test suite, you didn't build SQLite

- this is a "draw the rest of the owl" scenario; in order to transform this into something passing the suite, you'd need an expert in writing databases

These projects are misnamed. People didn't build counterstrike, a browser, a C compiler, or SQLite solely with coding agents. You can't use them for that purpose--like, you can't drop this in for maybe any use case of SQLite. They're simulacra (slopulacra?)--their true use is as a prop in a huge grift: tricking people (including, and most especially, the creators) into thinking this will be an economical way to build complex software products in the future.

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9dev an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Well--given a full copy of the SQLite test suite, I'm pretty sure it'd get there eventually. I agree that most of these show-off projects are just prop pieces, but that's kind of the point: Demonstrate it's technically possible to do the thing, not actually doing the thing, because that'd have diminishing returns for the demonstration. Still, the idea of setting a swarm of agents to a task, and, given a suitable test suite, have them build a compliant implementation, is sound in itself.

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gf000 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Also, the very idea is flawed. These are open-source projects and the code is definitely part of the training data.

	▲	viraptor 9 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This would be relevant if you could find matching code between this and sqlite. But then that would invalidate basically any project as "not flawed" really - given GitHub, there's barely any idea which doesn't have multiple partial implementations already.
	▲	tux3 20 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's why our startup created the sendfile(2) MCP server. Instead of spending $10,000 vibe-coding a codebase that can pass the SQLite test suite, the sendfile(2) MCP supercharges your LLM by streamlining the pipeline between the training set and the output you want. Just start the MCP server in the SQLite repo. We have clear SOTA on re-creating existing projects starting from their test suite.