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I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code (posthog.com)
39 points by robbie-c 1 hour ago
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Well despite my current anti AI sentiment, I have to admit that after reading the article, It was a good use of AI, done by someone with good technical skills. Still I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI, and if everybody keeps going in this path, it will end up making everyone not advancing their knowledge at the pace they did before. I feel that this AI immersion is really about selling our soul to the devil for short term gains.
> till I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI

I'm not about to say that there's nothing new under the sun, but parsers are a really well-understood problem where 99.9% of people don't need frontier knowledge and wouldn't be in a position to use it anyway.

And I don't think that people doing research on parsers would ever rely on LLMs for precisely that reason. But we're not parser researchers right?

I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.
Try clicking 'switch to website mode' on the left side
I love it. So different. Slightly BeOS.
They have an excellent branding and have some balls to pull it off, it shows passion, I highly trust it even in company settings.
Dunno about the parser, but you broke scrolling on your fancy website without noticing it also ;-)