Nikolay and Michael discuss using ChatGPT for Postgres tasks — should you, if so what for, and some things to be mindful of!

Here are links to a few things we mentioned:

ChatGPT
Nikolay’s polls on Twitter and on LinkedIn
The Art of PostgreSQL (book by Dimitri Fontaine)
SQL Performance Explained (book by Markus Winand)
Nikolay’s YouTube correction about deletes and index amplification
Don’t use ChatGPT to solve problems (blog post by Christophe Pettus)
Query optimization session with ChatGPT, Michael, and Nikolay (on YouTube)
DBeaver SmartAssistance feature
Depesz anonymization feature

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