# Discourse Chatbot 🤖 **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652 **Category:** Plugin **Tags:** ai **Created:** [March 1, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652 "2023-03-01T11:08:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1112
### Author: ![StevePlex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/steveplex/32/269106_2.png) [@StevePlex](https://meta.discourse.org/u/StevePlex) #### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652/1112 "2025-11-20T00:06:48Z")
I have had really good luck with GTP-5-mini in agentic flows via **tool calling, code writing and structured data**. I generally find structured data is easier for AI apps than unstructured ! .. not what I expected ! but guardrails are easier .. (code-in-loop, human-in-loop, llm-as-judge, etc) please watch this for blow by blow walkthru of high performance , low cost gpt-5-mini and gpt-4o … [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/6/7/4676acd02954e07ad74b06aa06525cb76b12ebb0.jpeg "AI 4 BI: Query complex business data w/ natural language. The holy grail for quant software arrives!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0CVp6QW5mQ) If anyone out there is interested in working structured data capabilities into Discourse as a plugin, etc. Please reach out. An NLP extension for sql/stats/datascience to [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) is an example.. But could also possibly have a tool / plugin / feature that allows natural language queries of read-only sqlLite or duckdb etc olap files loaded into the container ? just a thought.. 🤔 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-chatbot/256652)._