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Giving an LLM write access is insane but I gave LLM’s read-only access to our database and it’s been a huge productivity win. Executives who wouldn’t take the
by iambateman 5mo ago
Giving an LLM write access is insane but I gave LLM’s read-only access to our database and it’s been a huge productivity win.
Executives who wouldn’t take the time to build a report are happy to ask an AI agent to do so.
- kgeist 5mo agoHow do you validate that the reports are correct? What if an executive makes a wrong business decision because the LLM wrote a wrong SQL query?
- nananana9 5mo agoThe same way we've always done it - glance at it and see if the numbers look like they're within an order of magnitude of what looks reasonable.
- tremon 5mo agoSo as long as the LLM only makes errors in the single-digit percentage range, everything is peachy. Make number go up, but not by too much.
- marcosdumay 5mo agoIf you already know the report's numbers, why are you asking an LLM to generate it?
- nananana9 5mo agoUsually because you need something vaguely technical and authoritative sounding to push for a decision you're already made.
- fl4regun 5mo agoso what if there were some numbers in the report which are in actuality, an order of magnitude or two outside of what you think is reasonable, because something was wrong, but the AI agent reports something that looks normal?
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- pocksuppet 5mo agohttps://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Great-Excel-Spreadsheet https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Great-Excel-Spreadsheet
- BrentOzar 5mo ago> What if an executive makes a wrong business decision I jokingly tell students, "We all know executives are gonna make bad decisions no matter what the data says. Might as well give them the random numbers more quickly."
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5mo agoI would hope that you're running this on a replica so that the massive table scan doesn't choke writes to the main db. Even then it's possible to bring the replica down and depending on the technology still create a problem (WAL backup for instance) Another way to bring prod down even with read is depending on your atomicity settings, try starting a transaction and don’t commit or abort it, just leave it dangling. That’s a cute one
- mdavid626 5mo agoHow do you prevent your customer data being used for training?