https://smartql.dev/blog Writing on text-to-SQL, AI database access, query validation, and the architecture behind SmartQL. en-us https://smartql.dev/blog/intelligence-layer-for-laravel https://smartql.dev/blog/intelligence-layer-for-laravel A practical architecture for letting users ask questions of their data in plain English, drawn from how Trakli wires SmartQL into a Laravel application: an HTTP service, a queued job, a question router, and a semantic layer. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://smartql.dev/blog/give-ai-your-database-not-the-keys https://smartql.dev/blog/give-ai-your-database-not-the-keys Teams are wiring LLMs directly into production databases. The payoff is real, and so are the failure modes. Here is the architecture that gets you the first without the second. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://smartql.dev/blog/parse-the-sql-dont-trust-the-prompt https://smartql.dev/blog/parse-the-sql-dont-trust-the-prompt Why SmartQL validates LLM-generated SQL with a real parser and an AST walk instead of system prompts and regex, with the actual checks it runs before a query touches your database. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://smartql.dev/blog/smartql-0-1-0-on-pypi https://smartql.dev/blog/smartql-0-1-0-on-pypi The first public release of SmartQL: natural language to SQL with AST-based validation, a YAML semantic layer, and 100+ LLM providers. One pip install away. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT