D. Richard Hipp
Creator of SQLite
The world is entralled with LLM AIs like ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, DeepSeek, and the like. And rightfully so, since those are amazing systems. But there are other kinds of AIs that do not speak a human language, and so do not attract as much attention, yet are no less powerful. Chess players might be familiar with Stockfish, for example.The Structure Query Language (SQL) is implemented by many database management systems. Though widely used, few programmers appreciate that most SQL database engines implement a kind of AI known as "automatic programming". These systems write larges amounts of code for you, automatically, based on just a statement of the problem to be solved. Understanding how these SQL AIs work, and how they can be leveraged, can dramatically increase your programming productivity, and help prevent you from being replaced by an LLM.