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chairmansteveyesterday at 8:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes. The correct answer is to ask an SQL expert to write the query. An LLM will make the expert much faster at writing the script, maybe.


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mattmanseryesterday at 9:27 PM

It doesn't.

I can write that script faster than I can write the text asking the AI to write the script as SQL is concise and my IDE has auto-complete.

bluefirebrandyesterday at 11:31 PM

SQL is not hard enough to require an LLM to think about for you

I will never understand Engineers who struggle with SQL lookups. The vast majority of queries are extremely basic set theory

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