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Comment by CodesInChaos

17 hours ago

I am rather receptive to the argument that SQL is a fractal of bad design. But complaining that SQL engines implement well known SQL semantics according to spec is silly.

"SQL engines implement well known SQL semantics"

That's why I preplied:

> if enough people did it that way it would be the new normal, and apologists would fall out of the woodwork

If 4=5 made it into the spec, would it be no longer up for criticism?

  • it's unfortunate that you are getting downvoted for having an actual conversation rather than just piling on these guys. but there are also a lot of places where people have said "everyone is using LLMs" and also "this thing about the job being requirements is a myth, because lots of requirements are ridiculous" has also been said, so i don't know. what do people want? a lot of these bullshit startups to fail, which is funny, but it's not good.