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My. Guy.
What is stopping you from making an interface that a human being can use instead of forcing them to go through a copilot agent? I’m assuming that the database is not a clumsily assorted stack of PDF reports or you would have said something by now(right?). All data would have some way of identifying it(sale instance was for X product in Y location for Z amount at [time], for example) and if you can integrate co-pilot than surely you can integrate something to handle that information, right?
Before the copilot agent, there was no system whatsoever for anyone to make reports because no one had access to the database? So they just hucked information into it and it was lost to time? What if an auditor came through and needed to see things? Did you just say “sorry, no one has access to the database and you’re going to have to wait until LLMs exist and FreedomAdvocate integrates one into the database”?
Look, dude, I’m ok with not understanding something but you haven’t given me any indication that what I’m asking for wouldn’t work. All you’ve said is “no that won’t work” and the most in-depth thing I’ve gotten is that “there are a lot of places to find the info” but never really elaborated on why that’s a significant problem or why co-pilot can handle it so vastly differently(and without missing anything).
I have literally answered this multiple times lol. I'll tell you where AGAIN:
Since you just ignored that the last time, here is the main point:
What's stopping me from making a "get whatever you want from the database without having to know a single thing about the database itself, and without having to know any database query languages" interface? Really?
Ok I can only assume you're purposefully being ignorant now.
You fundamentally do not understand how databases and data access work. I've tried explaining it to you in the most basic of terms that even a 6 year old could understand, and you still don't get it. You still keep saying I haven't answered your question despite me answering it multiple times.
Do you have an IT background? Can you not see the difference between someone requesting a feature to be made, with that feature taking 6 months to get made, and that someone being able to simply do it themselves instantly with natural language?
Bruh, I can’t with you lol. Or your dogshit company, either, which apparently has such poor data management that its original plan was to get sales people to ask the fucking developpers to get marketting information for them. Embarrassing.
I love how there’s no possible way for anything to work except for your specific solution and that’s it. Everything else is throwing your hands up in the air and getting mad at people.
Ok now that it is abundantly clear that you fundamentally do not understand anything about software, development, or databases, we're done here. I sincerely hope you're either under the age of 12 or over the age of 60, because otherwise you're in for a tough time.
How many times you gunna say “you clearly don’t understand” before you just admit that you don’t have the communication skills to talk about it with anyone who doesn’t have intimate knowledge about your specific project and how your soecific company does, or evidently doesn’t, function? Sorry I made you feel bad about yourself by asking questions you couldn’t answer.
Look, you don’t need to admit it to me, this exchange has been heated enough and I get that, but for the love of god please be better the next time you find yourself in a similar situation.
You not having the capacity to understand very basic concepts and examples doesn’t mean my communication skills are bad. It means you lack the capacity to understand very basic concepts and examples.
Best of luck, you’ll need it.
Yikes, big dog.