>I don't understand the desire - borderline need - of folks on HN to just make stuff up.

Hacker News is addictive. This forum is designed to reward engagement with imaginary internet points and that operant conditioning works just as well here as everywhere else.

karma please go up

And yet if we didn't do this, HN would be almost completely silent because 99% of commenters have a clue what they're talking about most of the time and nobody would ever have a chance to learn.

I don't know how to say this less flippantly, and I honestly tried: you could have simply posted a comment phrased as a question, and 20 people would have jumped in to answer.

(To your point, >15 of them would have had different answers and the majority would have been materially wrong, but still.)

So let me be more direct. The part I'm not confident I'm correct in is this:

> AI Agents, instead, directly access the database

However, I don't think I'd be too far off the mark given many systems work like this (analytics tools typically hook into your DB, to the chagrin of many an SRE/DevOps) and it's usually marketed as the easy solution. Also, I've since read a few comments and it appears I'm pretty fucking close: the agents here read a search index, so pretty tightly hooked into a DB system.

Everything else, I know I'm right (I've built plenty of systems like this), and someone was making a point that permissions access does scale. I pointed out that it appears to scale because of the way they're designed.

I'd say most of my comment is substantively correct, with a disclaimer on an (important) point, where I'd be happy to be corrected.

The correct way to setup an analytics tool is to point it to an analytics db that is a replica of your main DB. It's a pretty common part of an HA setup to replicate your primary to an actual hot read replica and a cold analytics store. This way the analytics tool queries your analytics store and doesn't put load on your hot primary or hot read replica.

> I'd say most of my comment is substantively correct, with a disclaimer on an (important) point, where I'd be happy to be corrected.

I read this and feel that you still want imaginary internet points for something that is, at best, directionally correct. To me it seems your desire for internet points urged you to post a statement and not a question. I imagine most of HN is just statements that are overconfident bluster by only directionally correct statements which create the cacophony of this site.

> The correct way to setup an analytics tool is to point it to an analytics db that is a replica of your main DB. It's a pretty common part of an HA setup to replicate your primary to an actual hot read replica and a cold analytics store. This way the analytics tool queries your analytics store and doesn't put load on your hot primary or hot read replica.

That doesn’t solve the problem of changing schemas causing issues for your data team at all. Something I see regularly. If you setup an AI Agent the same way you still give it full access, so you still haven’t fixed the problem at hand.

> I read this and feel that you still want imaginary internet points for something that is, at best, directionally correct.

And you’ve yet to substantiate your objection to what I posited (alongside everyone else), so instead you continue to talk about something unrelated in the hope of… what, exactly?