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kragen • yesterday at 6:43 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

It's kind of insane that one of OpenAI's internal test tasks is now "reimplement SQLite from scratch, preserving binary compatibility with existing database files".


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anonymous908213 • yesterday at 7:11 PM

There's nothing insane about writing a de/serializer for an open source format with tests telling you every time you get it wrong to fix in a loop. Insane would be if they were willing to entrust critical production data to their vibecoded replacements (in multiple ways).

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sarchertech • yesterday at 7:14 PM

Have they released this publicly? This seems about on the same order of difficulty to anthropic’s C compiler project, which ultimately failed. I’m surprised if they can do SQLite they wouldn’t show up Anthropic with a real working C compiler.

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fnordpiglet • yesterday at 7:04 PM

And they do it in powershell

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dist-epoch • yesterday at 8:30 PM

You missed the "solve unsolved math problem, because all other are too easy" tasks