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Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Post by dvt »

jakeydus wrote: post #17
dvt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering

Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a cynical echo-chamber. The famous Dropbox comment is a cautionary tale for a reason.

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Post by q3k »

dvt wrote: post #22
jakeydus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> doesn't do much to forward creativity, entrepreneurship, or engineering Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a cynical echo-chamber. The famous Dropbox comment is a cautionary tale for a reason.

> Show HN: AI-enabled orphan grinder

> Person A: yo wtf is wrong with you

> Person B: Who are you (or who am I) to decide that? The entire point of a show HN is to be non-judgmental and charitable, otherwise it's just going to turn into a cynical echo-chamber. The famous Dropbox comment is a cautionary tale for a reason.

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Post by mym1990 »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #7

Edit: 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…

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Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Post by eiek »

freediddy wrote: post #15
coreyp_1 wrote: post #2

Nice. 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.

Lmao this is absolute nonsense.

First of all accounting as a whole is incredibly broad. The fact you don’t recognise that in your post with nuance shows you have zero clue what you are talking about.

E.g llm’s are useless in tax auditing. How do I know this? My brother is a partner at pwc.

Re: Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad

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Post by SoftTalker »

freediddy wrote: post #15
coreyp_1 wrote: post #2

Nice. 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.

Interesting how "low hanging fruit" always stops just below the level of the person doing the fruit picking. Check back with her when her own boss replaces her with an AI, and let us know how she feels about it.
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