A few weeks ago I got stuck on a question: what if part of a WHERE clause could be written in plain English? SELECT * FROM support_tickets WHERE SEM_PREDICT ( ticket_text , 'customer is asking for a refund' ); I didn't want an LLM writing SQL for me, and I didn't want a chatbot. I also didn't want to send every row to an API. I wanted the natural-language condition to behave like any other predicate the engine can evaluate. I built a prototype c...