I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
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Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#2Dunno about the parser, but you broke scrolling on your fancy website without noticing it also ;-)
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
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Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#4I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#5Well despite my current anti AI sentiment, I have to admit that after reading the article, It was a good use of AI, done by someone with good technical skills. Still I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI, and if everybody keeps going in this path, it will end up making everyone not advancing their knowledge at the pace they did before. I feel that this AI immersion is really about selling our soul to the devil for short term gains.
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#6I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.
They have an excellent branding and have some balls to pull it off, it shows passion, I highly trust it even in company settings.
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#7Well despite my current anti AI sentiment, I have to admit that after reading the article, It was a good use of AI, done by someone with good technical skills. Still I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI, and if everybody keeps going in this path, it will end up making everyone not advancing their knowledge at the pace they did before. I feel that this AI immersion i…
> till I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI
I'm not about to say that there's nothing new under the sun, but parsers are a really well-understood problem where 99.9% of people don't need frontier knowledge and wouldn't be in a position to use it anyway.
And I don't think that people doing research on parsers would ever rely on LLMs for precisely that reason. But we're not parser researchers right?
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#8I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.
I love it. So different. Slightly BeOS.
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#9I cannot believe they're sticking to their guns on this website design. It's awful.
Try clicking 'switch to website mode' on the left side
Re: I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
#10The thing I would have liked to know is why they don't use an existing fast SQL parser. Was being slightly incompatible with all existing SQL dialects a product requirement?