This is wild. Our company has like 10 data scientists writing SQL queries on our DB for business questions. I can deploy pg-mcp for my organization so everyone can use Claude to answer whatever is on their mind? (e.x."show me the top 5 customers by total sales") sidenote: I'm scared of what's going to happen to those roles!
Probably nothing. "Expose the database to the pointy-haired boss directly, as a service" is an idea as old a computing itself. Even SQL itself was originally an iteration of that idea. Every BI system (including PowerBI and Tableau) were supposed to be that. It doesn't work because the PHB doesn't have the domain knowledge and doesn't know which questions to ask. (No, it's never as simple as group-by and top-5.)
I suppose this could be useful in that it prevents everyone in the company having to learn even the basics of SQL which is some barrier, however minimal.
Also the LLM will presumably be able to see all the tables/fields and ‘understand’ them (with the big assumption that they are even remotely reasonably named) so English language queries will be much more feasible now. Basically what LLMs have over all those older attempts is REALLY good fuzziness.
I see this being useful for some subset of questions.