We spent months building a sophisticated text-to-sql agent, but as it turns out, sometimes simpler is better. Giving it the ability to execute arbitrary bash commands outperformed everything we built. We call this a file system agent.
Sqlite can totally do embeddings now with Alex Garcia, creator of sqlite-vec
Vector databases are kind of everywhere these days. There is a big pool of VC's that are pouring money into the ecosystem too. But while all of that is happening, sqlite has also gotten support for it. In this episode we talk the Alex Garcia, the maintainer of this project, and discuss how the project got created on what the future has in store.
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Dataviz
04:39 Chromebook matters
10:30 Why sqlite rocks
17:32 Facebook and VR stuff
26:19 Datasette & Simon
38:31 Towards sqlite-vec
46:46 Getting attention
52:38 Current work
Sqlite-vec Github repo:
https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec
Alex Garcia blog:
https://alexgarcia.xyz/blog/2024/sqlite-vec-hybrid-search/index.html
Datasette discord:
https://discord.com/invite/ktd74dm5mw
Sqlite-vec channel on Mozilla Discord:
https://discord.gg/Ve7WeCJFXk
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Ask questions of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files in your terminal
I built a new plugin for my sqlite-utils CLI tool that lets you ask human-language questions directly of SQLite databases and CSV/JSON files on your computer. It’s called sqlite-utils-ask. Here’s …
