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Re:Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL by staticautomatic on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:18AM (#39430676)
It’s a tough call. I run a small analytics team and am starting to train some analysts to code. Just the other day I basically told one of my reports to focus on learning Python and let ChatGPT teach him SQL by example because I think it’ll be easier to grok the explanations. Now I’m looking at PRQL and Malloy and asking myself if it’s really a path I should send them down, and I’m not sure it’s a good idea.
Re:Show HN: PRQL in PostgreSQL by buremba on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:47PM (#39435767)
I just tried ChatGPT to generate some Malloy snippets and compared to SQL, it’s very basic. It’s probably not a huge lift to teach it the library by scanning the docs but still the reasoning with SQL is much sophisticated given that there are tons of training data.