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by bradleyjg 818 days ago
PG’s blub essay isn’t especially charitable. There’s a good reason to want to stick with what you know and are comfortable with—-climbing endless learning curves means not getting things done and it isn’t simple to know ex ante what is worth the time
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Which is fine when everything is handcrafted and human-scale, but as soon as you start going down the path of machine generated SQL (both the generation and analysis thereof) the tax is non-trivial.