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Ask HN: Cursor, but for Data Exploration?

by dira3 on 4/1/25, 4:31 PM with 1 comments

If I am trying to read/explore/join/ETL deeply nested tables in PSQL or Spark, Cursor doesn't seem to work very well for me.

Which LLM-assistant tools have worked for you to expedite data exploration? Whether in a notebook format or otherwise.

Or is there simply a better way to use Cursor for this purpose that I haven't thought of?

  • by Jimmc414 on 4/1/25, 5:04 PM

    to what degree you have you exhausted preloading schema context such as:

    DDL files,

    Example of queries or ER diagrams illustrating joins/relationships,

    Descriptions of nested fields (JSON paths, array structures),

    Primary/foreign keys or metastore metadata