February 12, 2026
tl;dr
I tasked Claude, Codex, and Gemini to build a SQLite-like engine in Rust.
~19k~ lines of code.
Parser, planner, volcano executor, pager, b+trees, wal, recovery, joins, aggregates, indexing, transaction semantics, grouped aggregates, and stats-aware planning all implemented.
282 unit tests, all passing.
background
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