We had a team of agents rebuild SQLite from its 835-page manual. It created a replica in Rust which passed 100% of a held-out test suite.

kept by eddie jul 21

A team of AI agents rebuilt SQLite from its 835-page manual into a Rust replica that passed all held‑out tests, with costs varying 15× across model mixes.

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