Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI

Genuinely do not understand the point of these tools. There is already a practically natural language to query RDBMS; it’s called SQL. I guarantee you, anyone who knows any other language could learn enough SQL to do 99% of what they wanted in a couple of hours. Give it a day of intensive study, and you’d know the rest. It’s just not that complicated.

SQL is simple for simple needs, basic joins and some basic aggregates. Even that you won't learn in 2 hours. And that is just scratching the surface of what can be done in SQL and what you need to query. With LLMs and tools like this you simply say what you need in english, you don't need to understand the normalizations, m:n relation tables, CTEs, functions, JSON access operators, etc.

For reference, I’m a DBRE. IMO, yes, most people can learn basic joins and aggregates in a couple of hours, but that is subjective.

> you don’t need to understand the normalizations

You definitely should. Normalizing isn’t that difficult of a concept, Wikipedia has terrific descriptions of each level.

As to the rest, maybe read docs? This is my primary frustration with LLMs in general: people seem to believe that they’re just as good of developers as someone who has read the source documentation, because a robot told them the answer. If you don’t understand what you’re doing, you cannot possibly understand the implications and trade-offs.