Yeah, I'm firmly against software that tries to helpfully fix mistakes and figure out what you meant. Anything that enforces semi-colons wouldn't have that issu

Yeah, I'm firmly against software that tries to helpfully fix mistakes and figure out what you meant. Anything that enforces semi-colons wouldn't have that issue. Every now and then some story appears on HN complaining that tools can give you an error message and how to fix it instead of just fixing it for you. But when it just fixes it for you, you get problems like this. Obviously many things went wrong here and the article covers them. But it seems to just gloss over the fact that their SQL client could have prevented it as well...