Crunch Is Open. Hold It to Both.
We spent the last few pieces arguing that a question isn't a query, and that an answer you can't check isn't a cheaper answer. BumbleB Crunch is now open to early users. The arguments become a test anyone can run.
A Question Isn't a Query
Every AI tool takes plain English now. That fixed the wording of a question. It left the harder part, working out what the question actually is, exactly where it was.
You Do Not Need to Read SQL to Catch a Wrong Number
Checking an AI's analysis was supposed to require an analyst. Most wrong analyses are not wrong analytically — they are wrong about the business, which is the one thing the room already knows.
The Answer Got Cheap. Checking It Didn't.
The cost of producing an answer collapsed. The cost of checking one didn't. In data analysis that gap is wider than it looks — because code fails loudly and analysis fails quietly.