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[-] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I quit my job in public accounting for many reasons, but the primary one was the forceful adoption of LLMs to replace associates.

I told the dimwits at the top that it was a mistake, because LLMs are incompetent even when the information fed to it was perfect, and that was rarely the case in practice.

Our ultra wealthy clients were notorious for giving us the most incomplete and asinine information, and it often took someone with decades of experience to decipher what the fuck their personal assistants are even talking about.

They went ahead anyway because of the high cost of wages, of course, and I made my exit because I did not wish to be complicit in such a monumental mistake.

Lmfao the LLM they laid associates off and paid half a million dollars for made up fake ledger accounts when accounts didn't reconcile, and none of the dumbasses left noticed in time because they hadn't done associate-level work in decades.

It also lied all the time, even when you asked it not to.

The damage was done and the biggest clients started leaving, so they begged us all to come back but I got obsessed with baking bread and I ain't about to neglect my sourdough starters to help a group of people who would lose a battle of wits against yeast.

this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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