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Sure, but that presumes that you have that test suite written without having a single line of application code written (which, to me, is counterintuitive, unrealistic, and completely insane)

SQLite apparently has 2 million tests! If you started only with that and set your agentic swarm against it, and the stars aligned and you ended up with a pristine, clean-room replica that passes everything, other than proof that it could be done, what did you achieve? You stood on the shoulders of giants to build a Bizarro World giant that gets you exactly back to where you began?

I'd be more interested in forking SQLite as-is, setting a swarm of agents against it with the looping task to create novel things on top of what already exists, and see what comes out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#Development_and_distrib...

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You think an implementation of SQLite in another language, with more memory safety, has no value?

I agree that this current implementation is not very useful. I would not trust it where I trust SQLite.

Regardless, the potential for having agents build clean room implementations of existing systems from existing tests has value.




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