SQL vs Pandas vs AI Agents: Which Solves Analytics Problems Best?
# Introduction We gave the same three interview questions from StrataScratch to SQL, Pandas, and a Claude agent. Every piece of code executed against the same dataset, and every timing number is a median over 500 runs. The agent's answers are exactly what Claude generated in response to a...
# Introduction We gave the same three interview questions from StrataScratch to SQL, Pandas, and a Claude agent. Every piece of code executed against the same dataset, and every timing number is a median over 500 runs. The agent's answers are exactly what Claude generated in response to a documented prompt, instead of a hypothetical example of what an agent might produce.