I am just wondering.. if we simulate the development of sqlite over 26 years and give the LLM step by step direction of the design decision they made.... will it still produce plausible code over correct code?
been researching this on the side for some weeks now. then, just recently, stumbled across some pieces that I think made it "pop".
Been integrating LLM's into my worklows for a few months myself now and all these little quirks and incedence you run into here and there amounted to me going on a quest of finding out what's up
That's a bit absolute for my test. There's definitely lots of cool and fun stuff you can play around with ob the side just by promoting here and there. But the higher up the ladder your skillset the more diminishing returns you get. I agree that there's little to no point at all to even consider prompting them with a fully laid out spec to write a database when you're already a db expert. You'd basically have to shove all your knowledge down its throat first so it's probably easier to just go ahead and do it yourself.
I am just wondering.. if we simulate the development of sqlite over 26 years and give the LLM step by step direction of the design decision they made.... will it still produce plausible code over correct code?
solid followup topic!
1000% the best read i’ve seen on the utmost critical problem facing agentic programming in 2026.
thanks! appreciate it. took a lot of time to compile and dig into
Out of interest, how long did it take? :)
been researching this on the side for some weeks now. then, just recently, stumbled across some pieces that I think made it "pop".
Been integrating LLM's into my worklows for a few months myself now and all these little quirks and incedence you run into here and there amounted to me going on a quest of finding out what's up
Makes sense, thanks for sharing.
This is an amazing article, thank you.
no problem!
So much great analysis to reach the wrong conclusion
> LLMs are useful.
No, they are not.
That's a bit absolute for my test. There's definitely lots of cool and fun stuff you can play around with ob the side just by promoting here and there. But the higher up the ladder your skillset the more diminishing returns you get. I agree that there's little to no point at all to even consider prompting them with a fully laid out spec to write a database when you're already a db expert. You'd basically have to shove all your knowledge down its throat first so it's probably easier to just go ahead and do it yourself.
damn I really butchered that:
- test = taste
- ob = on the side
- promoting = prompting