Everyone needs an editor. Lyft just learned it the hard way

An editor? How about building a system that doesn’t need a person to type numbers in the quarterly report?

If I was a Lyft investor, I’d be a lot more worried about the incorrect information that nobody has noticed (yet).

That was just the headline CNN went with.

I don't think it matters whether it was a human or program that entered the numbers in the quarterly report, what matters is that there weren't multiple other people proofreading it properly.

I'd have titled it "Lyft needs to proofread its quarterly reports".

Later on in the article, this typo on a trade is worse: "History’s pricey oopsies: ... Second place goes to Mizuho Securities, which in 2005 placed an order to sell 610,000 shares, for one yen apiece, in a company it was helping take public. It meant to sell one share for 610,000 yen. Whoops!"

This is why the idea of having humans do this kind of work is complete hype. They still haven't solved the problem of hallucinations.

This is extremely funny

Hah yes I had to read it twice.

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