I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code

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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.