Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Andy Pavlo (VP of database research, ClickHouse) talking, from an interview on The MAD Podcast published Oct 8, 2026.
What Andy Pavlo said
Agents could mean 10 to 100x more database queries
“So I think there's going to be potentially a 10 to 100x increase in volume and the number of queries that are going to hit up against databases.”
Andy Pavlo13:44 Text-to-SQL reached 99.5% at a bank, but at great cost
“they were able to get it up to like 99.5%, which is insane. I think that is, I think that's a viable thing now if you invest the time”
Andy Pavlo24:55 LLMs tune databases 85% of the way in 15 minutes
“the LLMs can get you maybe 85% of the way there and tuning certain things.”
Andy Pavlo34:14
The episode
The MAD PodcastAndy Pavlo: What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database
Andy Pavlo · VP of Database Research, ClickHouse
10:43of 1:16:54 · Oct 8
