Can LLMs Build a 10x Faster Database?
Two papers landed on arXiv the same day, from Cornell and TU Darmstadt, with the same idea: skip the general-purpose query engine and have an LLM agent compile each SQL query directly into specialized C++. GenDB and BespokeOLAP report 10x over DuckDB on TPC-H, 460x over Postgres, and per-query wins up to 1,466x. Alex Kouzemtchenko, CTO of Espresso AI, walked Papers We Love Brooklyn through both — and the interesting part of the talk is the half spent on what the numbers don’t say....