Paul Barnhurst on why AI agents generate different SQL queries for the same question. The process is probabilistic, but reliability has improved dramatically in a year. Humans ask vague questions like "what's my sales?" without timeframe, so consistency depends on context they never provide.
In the next three to six months.
October 23, 2025.
If you're on the same SQL query, it's going to give you the same answer every single time. But how that SQL query or how that DAX is generated by the agent is still probabilistic. So that is a very fine grain. Now what I say about it today, it is getting very, very good compared to what I saw things at last year. What I assume is in next three to six months, these are essentially production ready. It is not going to answer. So for example, if I ask the question, hey, what's my sales? I didn't ask for my life today itself. I either asked it because remember, humans don't give context when they talk.
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