How to Build an LLM-Powered Database Query Bot for Your Web App in 1 Day
Credit to Ramchandra Shahi Thakuri, an engineer who worked on this with me and came up with the prompts and implemented much of the code you see here. Published Dec 7 2025 What You'll Build This approach describes a framework-agnostic way for an LLM to communicate with your entire dataset, be that in Django, Laravel, Flask, Rails, Express, etc. I will the backend/LLM aspects; the frontend is straightforward and left to the reader.
- ▪Credit to Ramchandra Shahi Thakuri, an engineer who worked on this with me and came up with the prompts and implemented much of the code you see here.
- ▪Published Dec 7 2025 What You'll Build This approach describes a framework-agnostic way for an LLM to communicate with your entire dataset, be that in Django, Laravel, Flask, Rails, Express, etc.
- ▪I will the backend/LLM aspects; the frontend is straightforward and left to the reader.
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| Publication time | Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:58:41 +0000 |
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Credit to Ramchandra Shahi Thakuri, an engineer who worked on this with me and came up with the prompts and implemented much of the code you see here. Published Dec 7 2025 What You'll Build This approach describes a framework-agnostic way for an LLM to communicate with your entire dataset, be that in Django, Laravel, Flask, Rails, Express, etc. The only requirement is an SQL database. I will the backend/LLM aspects; the frontend is straightforward and left to the reader. The Problem Customer service load went up significantly at one of my clients. The CS team constantly needed to pull information from the database, but they had to wait for developers to write queries.
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