I think the AI hype (much of which is justified) detracts from the fact that we have Actually Good NLP at last. I've worked on NL2SQL in both the before and aft

I think the AI hype (much of which is justified) detracts from the fact that we have Actually Good NLP at last. I've worked on NL2SQL in both the before and after times, and it's still not a solved problem, but it's frustrating to talk to AI startup people who have never really thought deeply about named entity recognition, disambiguation etc. The tools are much, much better. The challenges and pitfalls remain much the same.