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> I see an ocean of startups doing things like ‘AI accounting systems’ that scare me a little. I’m a CPA and software engineer currently interviewing around fo
by sotix 2y ago
> I see an ocean of startups doing things like ‘AI accounting systems’ that scare me a little.
I’m a CPA and software engineer currently interviewing around for dev positions, and most of the people I’ve encountered running these companies are neither CPAs nor accountants and have little domain knowledge. It’s a scary combination with an LLM that demands professional skepticism for every word it says. I wouldn’t trust those companies in their current state.
- lolinder 2y agoThis brings up an interesting point, which is that it's likely that software developers overestimate the capabilities of LLMs in other domains because our own domain is so thoroughly documented on the internet. From what I've been able to gather interacting with other sectors, it seems like software is pretty unique in having a culture of sharing everything—tools, documentation, best practices, tutorials, blogs—online for free. Most professions can't be picked up by someone learning on their own from nothing but the internet in the way that software can. I strongly suspect that the result will be that LLMs (being trained on the internet) do substantially better on software related tasks than they do in other domains, but software developers may be largely blind to that difference since they're not experts in the other domain.