Yeah, of course, and learning the mental model behind SQL is even more important than learning the syntax.

I'll admit I was just posting a low-quality snark comment because I'm kind of appalled at the laziness and lack of expertise some of these AI "applications" show. I've yet to see an LLM used in a way that actually enables new ideas or that radically alters productivity. Instead every use case essentially boils down to either "save me five minutes by doing something I'm too lazy to do myself" or worse, "allow me to try my hand at something in complete ignorance, bother if I know whether or not it is even correct". The devaluation of practice and expertise is going to have major implications in the long run.

In this particular case, if you actually bothered to spend one day learning SQL you'd find it takes probably even less time to just write the query rather than try to think about the best english-language rendition of it that actually gets the LLM to do what you want...LLMs are like short-term thinking codified into a tool. Why spend thirty minutes to learn something today when I can spend a decade of my time doing it in a half-baked fashion over a lifetime.