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Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
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Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
#12Why is it that every "I built a cool AI tool" author shared on this site can't be bothered to write the article themselves? I'd be more likely to give credence to how great your slop is if you were at least invested enough to write the dang article yourself.
Here is my hot take. AI is going to replace some developers (not all) and the first ones it replaces will be the ones who can't code without it. The developer in this story provided a relationship with a forensic accountant, a few discussions with paralegals, and limited guidance to an agent. The agent did literally everything else, including writing the article!
Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
#13Where's the breakdown of these stats? What does it mean that 60% `Forensic Analysis` can be automated with AI? Are these per hour? Its also telling that each of the automated percentiles are rounded to the nearest 10%.
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#14Edit: OK, I'll remove the snark fairly called out by dvt: There is something very concerning about this article: submitting private information to LLMs w/no privacy guarantees is probably a crime. I strongly recommend taking down this article and that you stop submitting private information to LLMs with no privacy guarantees until you have spoken with an informed lawyer on this matter. Local models may be of assistan…
I know it's a grey area, but I've started to really push back against this kind of low-effort reddit-style gotcha' posting on HN (especially on "Show HN" posts, which are meant to be—from what I've always understood—a safe space for creativity, entrepreneurship, and engineering). It used to be rare enough that we could just collectively ignore it, but it's been getting super bad in the last 2-3 years.
Also, your comment is just trivially unininteresting to begin with: what is "submitting," what is "private," what is a "privacy guarantee," what is a "crime"? It's just outrage slop. If you're a lawyer and have something substantive to say, please do so (and a lot of lawyers on HN do), but otherwise, Lincoln put it best: "Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
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#15Nice. I have a friend who is a young accountant. I have tried to get him to consider AI, but he claims that they tried it and it's not that good. I've tried to get him to understand that AI has improved dramatically in the last few months, not to mention the last few years (their point of reference, I believe).
I know a lot of accountants. One is a chief accounting officer at a medium-sized tech company and she has already replaced about 5 people in her org with AI. She says she sees a lot of low hanging fruit in finance that will be replaced by AI at her company, by her specifically. I know another partner at Big 4 that is going heavy into AI usage as well. The idea that AI isn't good in finance and accounting is a myth.
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#16Next week we're going to have prompt injections via ledger
"How I got the IRS to give me back all the money I ever gave them via prompt injection"
Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
#17Edit: OK, I'll remove the snark fairly called out by dvt: There is something very concerning about this article: submitting private information to LLMs w/no privacy guarantees is probably a crime. I strongly recommend taking down this article and that you stop submitting private information to LLMs with no privacy guarantees until you have spoken with an informed lawyer on this matter. Local models may be of assistan…
I know it's a grey area, but I've started to really push back against this kind of low-effort reddit-style gotcha' posting on HN ( especially on "Show HN" posts, which are meant to be—from what I've always understood—a safe space for creativity, entrepreneurship, and engineering). It used to be rare enough that we could just collectively ignore it, but it's been getting super bad in the last 2-3 years. Also, your com…
I think OP's being hyperbolic, but defending an idea that is dangerous at worst and immature at best doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering. Engineers who build products that put people (or their data) in danger are bad engineers. We need to hold one another to a higher standard.
Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
#18Why is it that every "I built a cool AI tool" author shared on this site can't be bothered to write the article themselves? I'd be more likely to give credence to how great your slop is if you were at least invested enough to write the dang article yourself. Here is my hot take. AI is going to replace some developers (not all) and the first ones it replaces will be the ones who can't code without it. The developer in…
The topic and content was genuinely interesting, but it read like an annoying LinkedIn promotional article with all the short punchy sentences.
Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
#19Why is it that every "I built a cool AI tool" author shared on this site can't be bothered to write the article themselves? I'd be more likely to give credence to how great your slop is if you were at least invested enough to write the dang article yourself. Here is my hot take. AI is going to replace some developers (not all) and the first ones it replaces will be the ones who can't code without it. The developer in…
> Why is it that every "I built a cool AI tool" author shared on this site can't be bothered to write the article themselves?
Because most AI hypers have extremely low standards for any form of text - be it code or prose. If one is to believe code doesn't matter, then why would would prose matter either?
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#20There is nothing to Show HN (1).