527
Yeah, tell AI all your great ideas, You can count on AI corporations to keep your secrets
(lemmus.org)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
527 points (99.3% liked)
Fuck AI
8027 readers
1475 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was talking to my mom's tax preparer a couple of months ago. He was telling me how his $30K/month software system went down this year and fucked up his whole business (which was why he had to file extensions for all of his clients) and I told him how that was probably because of AI and vibe coding. He then launched into a diatribe about how great AI is which was hilarious by itself, but then he started telling me about how he had invested in some dude's "reactionless space drive" because the dude had solved all of his problems with this "technology" by using ChatGPT. I don't think I've ever had a professional convince me that quickly to use someone else.
Also if AI is so good, why pay for the tax preparer at all? Just let AI do it.
To be fair, I did at one point reconciliate a few issues in my general ledger using claude code. Gave it all the ledger entries for the period and the other data that would be necessary. Showed me exactly where the issue was and gave me an entry to make to correct it after the fact without going back and editing past data which could get messy. Still wouldn't trust it with my taxes though, that was just to get the end of year account balance to where I already knew it would have to be. Highly unlikely I'd end up being audited for accidentally showing 300 euros more profit than I actually made that year