I’m not sure what SQL query is, but I tried to use quickbooks help chat thing and it was changing my words as I typed and churning out gibberish. I thought I was having a stroke. I ended up having to type in a notepad and copy it into the chat. Fucking ridiculous.
A SQL (sequel) query is a way to ask a database for information. A database consists of tables (think sheets in excel) where each table has rows and columns. Rows are individual entries, and columns are properties on each entry. So you could have a “booking” entry with say, a “date” and a “customer.”
Excel and databases can be presented (and in many ways function) in very similar ways, as a developer the amount of times I’ve written software to shift work away from an Excel document into something more approachable and generalised… honestly it’s like most of what I do. Last year I developed an entire scheduling and follow-up application that was previously one person organising a bunch of people via an excel document. It was a fun project, the person was really fun to work with and super engaged with things.
Anyway, a query is almost plain English.
SELECT Customer, Date FROM Booking
WHERE Date BETWEEN '2025-11-15' AND '2025-11-30'
ORDER BY Date ASC
This is just an example, what I did was a little bit more complicated, but not by a lot. The LLM just decided to randomly change the verbs and add in random columns that didn’t exist. Completely unprompted, almost like autocorrect gone haywire.
Between the environment being a slow mess, and the LLM screwing me over, what would’ve normally taken ~5-10 minutes took over an hour. I don’t see how it’s supposed to improve productivity.
I’m not sure what SQL query is, but I tried to use quickbooks help chat thing and it was changing my words as I typed and churning out gibberish. I thought I was having a stroke. I ended up having to type in a notepad and copy it into the chat. Fucking ridiculous.
A SQL (sequel) query is a way to ask a database for information. A database consists of tables (think sheets in excel) where each table has rows and columns. Rows are individual entries, and columns are properties on each entry. So you could have a “booking” entry with say, a “date” and a “customer.”
Excel and databases can be presented (and in many ways function) in very similar ways, as a developer the amount of times I’ve written software to shift work away from an Excel document into something more approachable and generalised… honestly it’s like most of what I do. Last year I developed an entire scheduling and follow-up application that was previously one person organising a bunch of people via an excel document. It was a fun project, the person was really fun to work with and super engaged with things.
Anyway, a query is almost plain English.
This is just an example, what I did was a little bit more complicated, but not by a lot. The LLM just decided to randomly change the verbs and add in random columns that didn’t exist. Completely unprompted, almost like autocorrect gone haywire.
Between the environment being a slow mess, and the LLM screwing me over, what would’ve normally taken ~5-10 minutes took over an hour. I don’t see how it’s supposed to improve productivity.