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Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by Terr_ »

moregrist wrote: post #80
GCUMstlyHarmls wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be honest, I thought the first few items on your list of time consuming work was sarcasm.

A recent episode of Matt Levine’s podcast (Money Stuff) covered this: apparently investment bankers spend a huge amount of time preparing pitch decks for companies that don’t want them. Apparently Claude is quite good at making a pitch deck that no one but your boss wants or cares about. I feel like there’s a metaphor in there... maybe I’ll ask Claude about it.

Much like a lot of internal daily status report stuff: The BS generator is actually a great fit when the task is making BS output nobody used or deeply cared-about in the first place.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by anonfunction »

I've been doing bias and misaligned behavior research, creating custom private eval suites to test and compare models. Claude Opus 4.7 is heavily biased and presents clear regulatory and reputational risk.

It seems the initial product footprint tries to sidestep this problem by not giving the agents control on who to lend to or which applications to approve. Even so I think it's quite an optimistic read on their end. Happy to share reports to anyone who's interested (montana@latentevals.com), especially if you work at a frontier model lab and are interested in plugging my evals into your RL systems!

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

#133

Post by orochimaaru »

brunoborges wrote: post #86
areoform wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude's actually pretty great at this! I actually used to use Claude A LOT to answer interesting questions (which I'll be writing up on!) More generally, Claude is palpably different from most other agents. I'd recommend these models – especially Opus – without qualifications. But there's a process risk here based on their current practises. I'm hoping those practises change so that I can recommend Claude to everyon…

Before AI, shipping code to production used to be a two-person task: one writes the code, another one reviews the code. Now with AI writing the code, the developer that was supposed to write the code, only has to review it. And this is because they are responsible for the code they ship. Code review has become unbearable because before AI, developers were reviewing code as they went writing it in the first place. Gra…

Isn’t there a code review agent?

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by nradov »

deepfriedbits wrote: post #128
tyre wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is objectively not true. You can’t get around HIPAA by saying “lol wasn’t me it was an Agent”

Yep. There's no certification needed to create a financial model or close monthly books.

HIPAA doesn't require any certification either. Some organizations voluntarily choose to earn certification from private companies that offer certifications for compliance with HIPAA privacy or administrative simplification rules but this is completely optional.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by mwwaters »

deepfriedbits wrote: post #128
tyre wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is objectively not true. You can’t get around HIPAA by saying “lol wasn’t me it was an Agent”

Yep. There's no certification needed to create a financial model or close monthly books.

For doing some reporting stuff internally, there isn’t a certification. But there are definitely humans who have to certify financial statements and communications for financial offerings.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by owebmaster »

suriya-ganesh wrote: post #2

Will the big labs leave anything for external competition? This probably killed a thousand startups in this space. in the early internet you wouldn't see google creating their own news site or facebook building their own animal farm. what happened to platformication of everything?

I don't think Claude Design killed menu competitors and I don't think this will too

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by alwillis »

orochimaaru wrote: post #133
brunoborges wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Before AI, shipping code to production used to be a two-person task: one writes the code, another one reviews the code. Now with AI writing the code, the developer that was supposed to write the code, only has to review it. And this is because they are responsible for the code they ship. Code review has become unbearable because before AI, developers were reviewing code as they went writing it in the first place. Gra…

Isn’t there a code review agent?

Most workflows use a sub agent to review the code or an agent from a different company.

For example, Codex can review code written by Claude, etc.

Re: Agents for financial services and insurance

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Post by alwillis »

intended wrote: post #74
areoform wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude's actually pretty great at this! I actually used to use Claude A LOT to answer interesting questions (which I'll be writing up on!) More generally, Claude is palpably different from most other agents. I'd recommend these models – especially Opus – without qualifications. But there's a process risk here based on their current practises. I'm hoping those practises change so that I can recommend Claude to everyon…

> and you won't get human support or Claude – even if you are an enterprise paying out of your nose. And there's 0 redressal unless you go viral on social media. Sadly this sounds like par for the course when it comes to tech. Too many messages and requests for help depend on knowing someone in the right slack groups.

If you’re paying out of your nose, you would have forward deployed Anthropic/OpenAI engineers on the premises.
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