When Prompts Learn Themselves: The Death of Task Cues
A database column named CURRENT_BAL_AMT is annoying. A column named gbstk is worse. Somewhere inside an enterprise data warehouse, these names are perfectly normal. Somewhere outside the original engineering team, they are tiny locked doors. The usual solution is not glamorous. Someone asks a data engineer. The data engineer asks an older data engineer. A wiki page is found, partly wrong, last updated during an earlier economic cycle. Eventually, “current balance amount” or “overall processing status of sales document” appears in a data catalog, a semantic layer, a search index, or a text-to-SQL system. Humanity advances by one abbreviation. ...