I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
SQL parserANTLRClaudelarge language modelparser generationproperty-based testing
Author: robbie-c
Date: 6/24/2026
Article Summary:
The author describes their experience rewriting PostHog's SQL parser using a combination of ANTLR and a large language model (Claude Opus 4.7) to achieve a 70x speedup.