I recall a whole bunch of submissions of this story, which got several waves of increasingly major website coverage and IIRC got debunked as a fraud along the way; not that that stopped the waves of coverage.
I am a business user that needs to use generated sql. Unfortunately, there are few column names that needs to be changed everytime. This is an easy job for a pyton script, but those kind of things are bad in work environments, I cannot assume the guy after me knows python. That's why I am always happy to pay for software when it comes to business environments - you know you will have a good UI (if you choose well and stay away from oracle) and possibly good support.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 26.6 ms ] threadEdit: found it: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-... . It was on Hacker News 275 days ago, but received only 4 comments. I guess I saw it on reddit.