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My accountant friend says it’s amazing (he does check the work but says it’s amazingly accurate).
by throw03172019 2mo ago
My accountant friend says it’s amazing (he does check the work but says it’s amazingly accurate).
- grey-area 2mo agoThis is deeply troubling.
- ashdksnndck 2mo agoMaybe for the accountants! I have always done my own taxes, but used arcane custom spreadsheets that accumulated cruft each year. I told cowork to pretend it was an accountant and reorganize them using best practices, and the result is much better than what I had before. It also helped me complete a task I had been deferring for years (tracking down the history of money in my IRAs that had been transferred between different institutions, plus withdrawals conversions etc). Obviously I’m responsible for any errors Claude makes, but it seems to do a good job, and I don’t want to pay an accountant every year.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2mo agoI’ve been having Claude do my business books for the past year or so, operating on a beancount ledger and it’s worked quite well
- ldng 2mo agoIndeed, what could possibly go wrong ?
- hluska 2mo agoWhat’s troubling about it? Accounting is a huge space; many of which would be an excellent fit for an LLM. We’ll need specifics.
- gamblor956 2mo agoAs a counterpoint, the Accounting and Finance departments where I work are banned from using Cowork because it performed abysmally during a trial run. To put things in perspective, humans with a 25% lower error rate than Cowork are pip'd and usually let go. As with junior programmers and their love of vibe coding, I've found that anyone who thinks that AI tooling right now is "amazing" lacks the skills, knowledge, and/or experience to know that it really isn't.
- hluska 2mo agoYour anecdote is not powerful enough to justify insulting groups of people like you just did.
- gamblor956 2mo agoLOL. Outside of tech my "anecdote" is the standard experience for white collar workers. AI is universally loved by people too junior to understand when its wrong, and by execs who never understand when its wrong. This will be like Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 all over again, and all the AI sycophants will be coming to the rest of us begging for new jobs that they're not qualified for.
- brazukadev 2mo agowho took insults from his reply?