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Axel2Sikovyesterday at 6:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Same way you do today; you trust whoever wrote the query.

I do not sell a wrapper on top of some LLM; you can absolutely write your SQL directly. There is an engine, there are iceberg tables. You can just live your best life doing your own SQL by hand.

Now if you couldnt do it before and you have a sensible understanding, you can likely do a bit more with the CLI tooling. And if you know a lot more, you can still do that. The queries are not hidden, or abstracted, If you need them they will be saved - transparently in SQL.

So I dont know what is the answer to the question "how do people do things they don't know how to do" ?


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paulryanrogersyesterday at 8:12 PM

> So I dont know what is the answer to the question "how do people do things they don't know how to do" ?

The statue quo had been to learn SQL or ask a human you trust to check their own work, which hopefully you can reuse.

Now it's ask AIs that are intentionally a bit random, and less likely to (or incapable of) check(ing) their work. Perhaps without seeing the SQL at all, requiring to trust it for every interaction. And in a culture that moves so fast that there is no checking by any(one|thing).

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