Well. You know what I mean.

AI is also unreliable. Place chatGPT over a database and it's going to start lying about what is in it eventually.

That being said my statement likely isn't strictly true even when you account for ML. I'm sure there are even higher level languages that are not probability based and thus deterministic with expected results. But in terms of a software developers average experience, SQL is the highest level you can get without getting into the minefield that is LLMs.

> SQL is the highest level you can get without getting into the minefield that is LLMs

That's trivially false.

I'm currently playing with sea-orm[0], and I can write things like:

    let db = Database::connect(...).await?;
    let yesterday: chrono::DateTime<chrono::Utc> = ...;
    let foos: Vec<foos::Model> = Foos::find()
        .filter(foos::Column::Status.eq(FooStatus::Frobbed))
        .filter(foos::Column::UpdatedAt.gt(yesterday))
        .left_join(Bars)
        .also_select(Bars)
        .all(&db)
        .await?;

How is that not higher-level than SQL?

[0] https://crates.io/crates/sea-orm

Why not just write SQL, it would be much more readable.

> SQL is the highest level you can get without getting into the minefield that is LLMs

You can use NLPs to safely write SQL in more business language.

And of course there are GUIs.

> SQL is the highest level you can get without getting into the minefield that is LLMs.

I mean, not really true. Datalog is relational, like SQL, but gives you a higher level rule-oriented mechanism for querying that can avoid a lot of the mechanics of explicitly joining things, for example.