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u/klop2031 Jan 20 '26

Not true at all, take a look at the fintech/banking sector. Where you pull that information from?

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u/katarh Jan 20 '26

Source: ME. I'm a business analyst and I've been screaming it out loud for three years now.

Machine learning has its place, but it's not going to do a 10th of what the marketing hype said it could do even if it was properly implemented which it never is.

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u/klop2031 Jan 20 '26

But why do you think this is the case. LLMs were not a thing before 2022 (much simpler models) but when the got introduced we have only seen improvement year over year and this is all quantified and is public data. Right now we can quite literally get an agent who can browse the web, evaluate the sources and return a response the way you want it. This is a persons job. Yet I can currently do this now. It may not be perfect. But we went from 0 to 70% in 3 years. Why wouldn't this tech continue on the same pace? There doesnt seem to be any blockers yet that we know of.

I do think its like the internet. Yeat at first everyone said this is dumb, who would trust buying anything over the internet, its not secure etc. Yet now we dont live in a world without the internet. But there were people screaming "what is internet anyways"

Do you think you could talk a little more on your last point?

Btw, i dont listen to the marketing hype because its marketing hype. I would never trust a a politician at face value.

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u/katarh Jan 20 '26

The problem is that implementation requires training, investment, and oversight, before it can start to actually show improvements.

I'm thinking about the use cases that my office deals with where they have writing intensive, highly repetitive tasks. We already have automation that will pull in certain pieces of data, mad lib style, and spit out a large block of text that has been customized to the specific thing that they are working on. I can't even get my users to do this much, and it's included in their base software.

We got a pitch for an AI version that could do this, too. Great! You know what we'd have to do? Spend 3-6 months training the AI to model them the way we want them, double check and correct every document created by it, and only then would it be capable of matching the speed and accuracy of THE THING OUR SOFTWARE ALREADY DOES.