| > That comment doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Are services not valuable? Stripe and Twilio seem like really helpful services and that seems...OK to me? Services are totally valuable! I think with Stripe and Twilio they both solve a problem a Business/PM/Owner has. The conversations go something like this in my head: PM: I want to be able to send SMS messages to my customers. Dev: Uh, I don't know anything about telecom... Twilio: I do! I'm way cheaper than a dev working this problem. Just use me. For NLU, I'm not sure I've been able to find PMs that are wanting to "understand the plain english of our users". But I know there is a decent amount of NLP usage. Do PM's just not know that they can ask for these NLP? Or do they just not need it? I'm not sure. I feel a little bit like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. > Personally I get excited when I hear about an ease-of-use wrapper around regex. But for a DB, in place of that regular messy query stuff with the prospect of things like multiple LEFT JOINS? That's a big deal. A regex wrapper is an interesting idea. Maybe I'll try it out. I agree that a text to db wrapper could be a good idea, if it works really well. > The average person's energy pool for trying different sentences, even considering some expected failure rate, is so much deeper than the resources available for trying and failing with different SQL statements. Great point! > It sounds really cool. Good luck, hope it works out for you. Thank you, me too :) |