Remember how SQL (still called SEQUEL) was supposed to make non-techies able to talk to computers?
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@rysiek BASIC was my first programming language!
...wait, it's worse. I have forgotten the language, other than it having GOTO and GOSUB.
@KatS add IF, RETURN, FOR and NEXT and that was basically all of BASIC.
Really great for writing spaghetti code. Complicated almost like assembler, but much slower!
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Remember how SQL (still called SEQUEL) was supposed to make non-techies able to talk to computers?
> there is also a large class of users who, while they are not computer specialists, would be willing to learn to interact with a computer in a reasonably high-level, non-procedural query language. Examples
of such users are accountants, engineers, architects, and urban planners
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800296.811515How quaint!
Anyway, tell me again how LLMs are making non-techies able to talk to computers. 👀
@rysiek I had exactly the same idea: there was era, when databases, including SQL, were marketed as solution for everything and supposedly, no one will have to do programming any longer. And if we were about to do programming anyway, we would do it by clicking by mouse and drawing algorithms (which of course never happened...)
(except there was parallel rise in spreadsheets, which did almost the same thing, but differently...)
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Remember how SQL (still called SEQUEL) was supposed to make non-techies able to talk to computers?
> there is also a large class of users who, while they are not computer specialists, would be willing to learn to interact with a computer in a reasonably high-level, non-procedural query language. Examples
of such users are accountants, engineers, architects, and urban planners
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800296.811515How quaint!
Anyway, tell me again how LLMs are making non-techies able to talk to computers. 👀
@rysiek hahaha the ERP system the company I work for is using just switched their whole DB-system around to be able to give their customers an AI-supported drag and drop GUI "no-code" alternative to SQL.
It is limited in its abilities and soooo painful to use. Before SQL queries have been free. Now "code" queries cost as well as the "no code" alternative.
They promised their AI would transfer the old queries to their new DB structure.
IRL only the most simple ones have been transferred and I had to redo most queries.
Everyone in the "community" (aka customers who can't easily escape) is hating it while they are celebrating it as the new hot shit.