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kikki | 3 days ago

Unrelated; what does "mendral" mean? It's a very... unmemorable word

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shad42|3 days ago

I am sure you heard before: there are only two hard things in CS: cache invalidation and naming things.

In the history of this company, I can honestly say that this SQL/LLM thing wasn't the hardest :)

HanClinto|3 days ago

And the other of the two problems is off-by-one errors.

Noumenon72|3 days ago

Google says a shaft or spindle on a lathe, to which work is fixed while being turned. They could probably make up a story about "we're the center point that lets your LLM work" or something.

SoftTalker|3 days ago

That would be a mandrel.