alt Hacker News> the second programming language everyone needs to know
Do they though? I've been writing SQL for over twenty years, and my experience is that LLMs have been better at writing it than I am for at least most of 2025, for most use cases. I have zero doubt that I will only be writing SQL when I want to for fun no later than sometime 2027.
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gspr • yesterday at 9:10 PM
People who don't already know it still need to learn it if they wanna manage LLMs writing it. Anything else is reckless. So the original point stands.
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tete • yesterday at 10:53 PM
> I've been writing SQL for over twenty years, and my experience is that LLMs have been better at writing it than I am for at least most of 2025
Wow, bad career choices?
An LLM can respond to any online discussion about <x> is a good approach for solving a particular class of problems with LLMs can do <x> better than a human better than you.