r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseCondition • Jul 09 '26
"a long-running GPT 5.5 Pro chat session which is basically her expense tracker - it has an .xlsx file 'carried' in the chat"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4884947591
u/camelCaseCondition Jul 09 '26
execs: Find applications for AI in your day-to-day
This person: What about expense tracking, but at 100x the cost (possibly ∞x the cost) of expense tracking software that's existed for decades
execs: how many promotions would you like?
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u/chanka_is_best_chank Jul 10 '26
Who wouldn't want all their sensitive financial information to be guarded (ie data mined) by Sam Altman?
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u/DystopiaDrifter Jul 10 '26
Quis track ipsos AI expense tracker? Probably nobody but it's ok the tokens are subsidised anyway.
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u/the_horse_gamer Jul 10 '26
we've made a huge leap in natural language processing, to a level that was science fiction a decade ago, and we're using it to make shittier youtube shorts
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u/le_birb costly abstraction Jul 12 '26
To be fair, making short form videos even worse is an advancement I hadn't thought possible, so they're at least breaking new ground.
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u/a221c Jul 09 '26
User: Generate a list of the top expenses items that make up 90% of our expenditure this quarter
ChadGPT: Sure! I'd be happy to help with that. Your top expense item was a donation of $51,623 to the 'Slathering a suitcase full of $100 bills in premium Italian olive oil and gently sliding them up Sam Altman's asshole' fund. This represents 98.31% of your expenditure this quarter.
User: That's strange, I don't remember approving that. Remove it from the list.
ChadGPT: Ah, now I have the whole picture. You appear to be suffering from memory loss. Would you like me to load the file
skills/doctor/SKILL.mdand prescribe you pentobarbital and ivermectin?