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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

BlogSimon WillisonApr 5, 2026

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Simon Willison's favorite long-form piece on agentic engineering: Lalit Maganti spent 8 years thinking about building SQLite devtools, then 3 months shipping it with Claude Code. Case study on how AI coding agents flatten the 'I need to fully understand this' procrastination curve.

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Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog 5th April 2026 - Link Blog Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI (via) Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on…
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