is truly impressive. You can instruct it to do all sorts of things when they can be communicated in plain text. Software developers are already using it to or , among many other things. ChatGPT write code improve SQL queries But ChatGPT can also act as software. For example, if you tell it the following: Act as the MariaDB command line tool. Only reply to commands with output in one single code block. Do not write any explanations. Expect English messages in {curly brackets}. My first command is SELECT VERSION(); Then you'll get this answer: Isn't that impressive? There. Now you have a new way to get started with MariaDB without installing anything. I mean, that was even faster than ! using Docker on your browser Let's show the available databases (or schemas): SHOW DATABASES; Can we create a new database? CREATE DATABASE test; Yes, we can! How about creating a new table and inserting data? CREATE TABLE test.messages(content TEXT); INSERT INTO test.messages VALUES("Hi MariaDB 👋"); Query OK, 1 row affected. It seems to be working! Let's double-check that the data is stored: SELECT * FROM test.messages; Hi MariaDB 👋! This is so cool! Open a new tab in your browser, and to see it in action. try it out When you want to stop ChatGPT from acting like a MariaDB database, just tell it to do so: {stop acting like mariadb} Or simply: {stop}