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AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming
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Let's keep the politics and business side of things to a minimum.
No memes
The 2000x difference is for more complex workloads. It has ok performance for very simple queries.
So not quite as bad as the headline number suggests. But still very bad and not a viable alternative.
I mean, 2x would already be unacceptable.
I mean, on the one hand, its SQLite.
On the other hand...
... arguably the entire point of a database language is to efficiently handle complex workloads.
And then when you remember that... this was a project, in development, that cost time, money, energy, made RAM prices go up by maybe ¢22 per GB all on its own...
This is an insane negative return on investment.
Like imagine if you paid the same amount of money to ... people, a contracted firm, and they handed you this.
You'd potentially be firing them or suing them for breach of contract, blacklisting them as far and wide as you could.
I couldn't find if they were able to fix the identified bugs, seems like an important detail. How far does a month of LLM plus a month of talent get you?
They probably dont care. They did this to generate headlines about how capable their AI is. It has served its purpose. So long as all of the investors only saw the propaganda articles the line will only go up and they can abandon this project.
The propaganda articles about how the LLM missed critical logic and that it performs worse than SQLite?
I'm less less interested in the extreme skepticism or hype.
The project is an impressive demonstration from a pure technical perspective. I couldn't imagine 5 years ago a model being able to rewrite such a complex project.