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I think it's likely that me or my programmer children are going to obsolete your accountant children long before they reach retirement age. Not entirely, of co
by ef4 13y ago
I think it's likely that me or my programmer children are going to obsolete your accountant children long before they reach retirement age.
Not entirely, of course. But enough that one software-equipped accountant will do the work of 100 of today's accountants, utterly destroying the bulk of the industry.
- VLM 13y agoLOL all that happened in my grandpa and dads generation. My grandpa actually made the cut, although many of his coworkers didn't. Everyone who was doin it by hand got downsized a long time ago. Now a days its all "strong AI" work, like how do I reconcile my GAAP training and accounting industry practice and that new federal tax code and the SEC report and this companies industry practices WRT how to account for (insert weirdness here) and/or my boss told me not to lie or break the law but to make the numbers "look" like such and such WRT a zillion more or less acceptable ways to record and report this situation ... When the lawyers, stock analysts/journalists, and politicians and political system are all replaced by strong AI, then accountants will be next to go. Could happen, maybe, but it'll be our grandkids problem at worst. Also from what I've heard from coworkers they already spend most of their time doing what amounts to financial systems analysis to find the bugs in existing code... more code would just mean even more debugging time and more work, not less. Better code, not more, might help, but...