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I remember a story a HN user shared about how they lifted their businesses reporting and switched it out for an AI instead.

I guarantee that business is lighting money on fire.

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It depends. I worked at a large bank on a reporting platform that made it easy to do SQL on data from all sorts of sources (CSV, Excel, JSON, calculations, etc) and use that data as the basis for another report.

We were always fighting for funding. Our director found a team that (somehow!?) was responsible for a million reports and was convinced that this was our golden ticket. When he took it up with his management her preferred option was to switch the million reports off and see if anyone noticed.

If no one is consuming the business reporting it's probably cheaper to have it produced by AI and of the same value.

> If no one is consuming the business reporting it's probably cheaper to have it produced by AI and of the same value.

Wait. Why produce it at all?

It's the same short-sighted logic that leads to job seekers using LLMs to convert their experience bullet points into resume prose and hiring managers to use LLMs to summarize resume prose into bullet points.

Or marketers using LLMs to write spam that no one wants to read anyway.

There's a lot of "look at how much more efficiently this garbage can be created!" going around.

Because if your job is to produce the report all you care about is producing the report.

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