“The LMs can get you 80, 85% of the way there… people were running with out-of-the-box configuration from Amazon or Google”
The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built - with Matt Turck · What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo)
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What was described
use an LLM to automatically suggest configuration tweaks for cloud-hosted Postgres/MySQL instances
80-85% improvement
Said nearby on the same subject
“You will write ahead logs in Postgres or binlog in MySQL… replay the changes into a new system when the new schema… essentially zero application code changes.”
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Sahil Walia
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers ·
“What we tried to do is, you know, using large language models and AI, we tried to really ground probability of success in an empiric data set, where we use Bayesian statistics.”
“If you can get that information and you can turn that unstructured data into semi-structured data and connect it to the prediction, then you can use the storytelling power of the large language models”