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Comment by aeonfox

Debug yourself of the AI hype^. Besides config, SQL implementations have a very limited textual API surface of accepting queries. Putting whole layers of UI and agents around it is really inefficient way of finding edge cases. I wouldn't call that basic, nor the most comprehensive option. Fuzzing at the query layer is far more computationally efficient and effective.

A truly stochastic method is more likely to hit against edge cases, rather than an agent that tends to towards idiomatic solutions and that is trained against a corpus of existing software, and burns millions of tokens/watts spinning its wheels.

^ There's plenty of business value to be found in agentic AI without reaching for it for every solution. I'd even posit agentic AI is even better when paired with focused old-fashioned squishy-brained software engineering in the loop.

parent aeonfox 3 months ago

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