AI assistant in Delphi projects - What technical support will look like in the near future

As part of the 30th birthday of the Delphi development environment, Ulf Klarmann and Andreas Marshall demonstrated the integration of an AI assistant into an existing customer project, accounting software. Using a GDPR-compliant architecture (LLM, Retrieval Augmented Generation – RAG), users can answer natural language questions about the application,
their data, documents and images. From requests like

“Calculate and compare the sales returns of my company over the last 3 years and display them in a bar chart” the AI ​​generates the corresponding SQL statement and illustrates the result via a PDF report.

Erpwerk is already active in many AI projects and sees great potential in the development of AI assistants to support existing Delphi applications or ERP systems in general.

“Software training, application support,
Expertise in the application area of ​​all tasks that can ideally be supported by AI in the future,” says Ulf Klarmann in his lecture on AI in software development or in the area of ​​ERP. “Manuals are a thing of the past.”