The AI powered SQL editor is a game changer for anyone looking to write SQL without actually knowing SQL. The Supabase SQL editor can intuitively understand what you're trying to query and offer smart suggestions uniquely just for your database.
Hey everyone! 👋
Today, we're releasing a big improvement to our SQL Editor: an AI assistant, embedded directly into the editor.
What can you do with Supabase AI?
- 🚀 Generate tables, reports, and more using natural language
- 🔧 Tweak and massage your query using natural language until you’re satisfied
- 🐞 Debug errors using AI - instead of cryptic messages, get direct solutions
- 🔤 Title your SQL snippets automatically based on the contents of the query
✨ How does it work?
When you spin up the SQL editor, you are now presented with a brand new input where you can ask Supabase AI to build any SQL query you like - using only natural language. For example “build a table to store employees” will produce a CREATE statement auto populated with common fields that you’d likely want to track for each employee.
Of course you don’t have to stop there - Supabase AI is aware of the SQL snippet in the editor and can modify it for you. For example, you could ask Supabase AI to split a “department” text column into its own table, all while adding proper foreign key references and following best practices.
This is all presented via a new diff editor that shows which changes Supabase AI is making to your SQL snippet. This will feel exactly like a Git diff view in an editor like VS Code. Nothing is applied until you accept or discard the change. From there you’re free to keep asking Supabase AI to make changes until you're satisfied.
🎯 Motivation
We've wondered for a long time how to make it easier to teach developers how to use SQL, while at the same time speeding up development for those who do. It's fortunate we didn't solve this problem too quickly, as it turns out that AI does a much better job than we could do ourselves.
We first introduced Supabase AI into our documentation website (aka the revival of Clippy 📎 😄) to help developers answer their questions directly, ChatGPT style, instead of searching for it through the docs. If you’ve had a chance to play around with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT 3.5/GPT 4, you’ll know they are also incredible at generating and interpreting code. The SQL editor was the next natural fit for this technology.
With Supabase AI, you won't even need the whole weekend to scale to millions. Head over to the SQL Editor and give it a try!
📈 What’s next?
In the coming months, we're looking to sprinkle Supabase AI through more parts of the Studio. With Postgres under the hood, there's so much we can do with SQL and a little bit of AI to help you move fast. Keep an eye out for the Supabase AI icon, you never know where it will pop up next.
🌐 Remember - it's all open source!
View all the code right now on GitHub.
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Thanks everyone!
We would absolutely love to hear your feedback in the comments.
Greg,
Supabase team
My colleagues have been recently working on a brilliant new upgrade to the Supabase Studio Dashboard; the SQL editor is now powered by Supabase AI.
This is has now become part of my daily workflow. I no longer need to switch back and forth between ChatGPT and Supabase, I can now, within the editor, just pop in a question, and Supabase AI will amend my query.
I think my favorite part is that after a while, I realized that my schema was being understood by Supabase AI. It was starting to reference my other tables and columns in my schema that were not present in the query I was working on (🤯).
@jon_summers_muir@jon_meyers Impeccable AI usage with clear product market fit. Hopefully my journey on learning SCD1-3 will be lil bit easier with this AI implementation.
@everconfusedguy Currently using OpenAI's GPT 3.5 model as a compromise between speed, cost, and quality. Overall quality is still very high, and today 3.5 is much faster and cheaper than GPT 4. We will definitely be updating this though as new and better models are released!
All the code is open source and available on GitHub!
@ggrn Interesting prompt..I like that you are recommending best practices in the prompt itself!
Have you considered any of the open models from HuggingFace?
@ggrn@everconfusedguy yes, would be interesting to see this working with an open source model from Hugging Face and compare the performance. I think that's planned.
@everconfusedguy@schaeff_t yes we would love to experiment with open source large language models like Llama 2, the biggest hurdle being finding a good way to host them (very resource heavy today). Alternatively a smaller & dedicated text-to-sql model could be another option.
Kudos to the team for integrating Supabase AI into the SQL editor of Supabase Studio Dashboard in record time! Can't wait to see what else is announced this week!
This is great! As an everyday "business" user of Supabase, who is learning SQL to extract insights about what our users are doing in our product, this can be very impactful in speeding-up my learning process and, at the same time, in helping extracting data. Cheers to the team!
No need to switch tabs and the ability to tweak the response is awesome. The only downside is that I am less likely to add to my decades old snippets library now.
Super excited that this is now available for everyone to use and leverage on - as a developer who's not the most familiar with SQL this is a huge time saver and also a potentially great learning tool! No longer will I need to search for "how to do xxx" on Google and try to find the best answer, all of this can be done without leaving the SQL editor ✨✨
Heads up: the website link in this producthunt post goes to a random signup page with no info on what im about to sign up to. I don't know if that's intentional or? If FTUX was improved it would 10x conversion rate IMO. Really love the design of the product tho! good job!
Love the diff editor design and how it actually checks my tables and columns to suggest changes! (when I switch on that setting)
No need to go back to chatGPT to explain the names of my columns and tables every time I need to make a new snippet haha
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✨ How does it work?
When you spin up the SQL editor, you are now presented with a brand new input where you can ask Supabase AI to build any SQL query you like - using only natural language. For example “build a table to store employees” will produce a CREATE statement auto populated with common fields that you’d likely want to track for each employee. Of course you don’t have to stop there - Supabase AI is aware of the SQL snippet in the editor and can modify it for you. For example, you could ask Supabase AI to split a “department” text column into its own table, all while adding proper foreign key references and following best practices. This is all presented via a new diff editor that shows which changes Supabase AI is making to your SQL snippet. This will feel exactly like a Git diff view in an editor like VS Code. Nothing is applied until you accept or discard the change. From there you’re free to keep asking Supabase AI to make changes until you're satisfied.🎯 Motivation
We've wondered for a long time how to make it easier to teach developers how to use SQL, while at the same time speeding up development for those who do. It's fortunate we didn't solve this problem too quickly, as it turns out that AI does a much better job than we could do ourselves. We first introduced Supabase AI into our documentation website (aka the revival of Clippy 📎 😄) to help developers answer their questions directly, ChatGPT style, instead of searching for it through the docs. If you’ve had a chance to play around with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT 3.5/GPT 4, you’ll know they are also incredible at generating and interpreting code. The SQL editor was the next natural fit for this technology. With Supabase AI, you won't even need the whole weekend to scale to millions. Head over to the SQL Editor and give it a try!📈 What’s next?
In the coming months, we're looking to sprinkle Supabase AI through more parts of the Studio. With Postgres under the hood, there's so much we can do with SQL and a little bit of AI to help you move fast. Keep an eye out for the Supabase AI icon, you never know where it will pop up next.🌐 Remember - it's all open source!
View all the code right now on GitHub. —- Thanks everyone! We would absolutely love to hear your feedback in the comments. Greg, Supabase team