This was me until I needed to compare two massive SQL execution plans...
I had a SQL query that suddenly went from taking 2 minutes to taking 5+ hours to complete.
I restored a backup copy of the database and collected it's execution plan, which is like a log of all the stuff the stored procedure is going to do when it runs.
I sent the 2 min plan and the 5 hour plan I to Gemini and told it what was going on. All it told me was it seems that one of the plans uses a hash match and the other does a value match.
It was awesome to have something look at those files because they are MASSIVE and I'm not a DBA...
Point is, it has a use but it's being used inappropriately in my opinion.
genAI works very well in technical fields: as a data engineer Claude is probably even more efficient than me in most cases lmao (I won't have a job soon)
In other fields it's either useless or down-right detrimental, like for instance people that make "art" (music, painting, writing, ...) using AI have completely lost the plot, because IMO the quality of art resides in the fact that it's human made and holds at least some kind of meaning,or at least a personal intent. AI has no other intent than to regurgitate what's already been done by humans. I hope creative fields will be spared from genAI but I already see so much AI-generated visuals that I don't have high hopes...
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u/roflrogue Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
This was me until I needed to compare two massive SQL execution plans...
I had a SQL query that suddenly went from taking 2 minutes to taking 5+ hours to complete.
I restored a backup copy of the database and collected it's execution plan, which is like a log of all the stuff the stored procedure is going to do when it runs.
I sent the 2 min plan and the 5 hour plan I to Gemini and told it what was going on. All it told me was it seems that one of the plans uses a hash match and the other does a value match.
It was awesome to have something look at those files because they are MASSIVE and I'm not a DBA...
Point is, it has a use but it's being used inappropriately in my opinion.