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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

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>YNAB I've fallen behind on keeping it up-to-date, but I feel I ought to plug anything self-hostable: https://actualbudget.org/

This is the big pain-point for me with self-hosted budgeting software. The corporate players in the space can jump through the security hoops and integrate with Plaid, but if I wanted to automatically pull my own data into the single-user budgeting tool I host entirely on my own network I need to pass the same security checks as a full-on fintech startup. Currently I enter transactions manually, but manually reviewin…

You can "solve" this by throwing your PDF statements at llms and having them extract the transactions. Has privacy implications if you use hosted llms of course.

As for self hosted accounting/budgeting software, IMO Beancount is the best by far: nothing to host, just text files.

Re: AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

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I actually had a great session with Gemini pushing back on the "Max 401k" advice. Summarized in my own words: - Why would I contribute tons more to my already decent 401k? If anything, I want to pull from it. I refuse to diminish the peak years of me and my family's life together just to be wealthy when I'm old and alone. - that's a good point, but know you'll pay tax on top of 10% - well I would have paid tax anyway…

The problem of money mattering more when you are younger is something that often appears in personal finance discussions. One thing is consumption but another are opportunities to invest in yourself. There is case for not saving at all when you are young (because there are always good way the money can be spent). Here is some good discussion that touches on it (and other FIRE related topics): https://youtu.be/qstjUV5…

That podcast was very timely and topical, thanks!

Re: AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

#443
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>YNAB I've fallen behind on keeping it up-to-date, but I feel I ought to plug anything self-hostable: https://actualbudget.org/

This is the big pain-point for me with self-hosted budgeting software. The corporate players in the space can jump through the security hoops and integrate with Plaid, but if I wanted to automatically pull my own data into the single-user budgeting tool I host entirely on my own network I need to pass the same security checks as a full-on fintech startup. Currently I enter transactions manually, but manually reviewin…

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