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Comment by lexandstuff

I prepared my taxes this year using Astra + Codex. It did a thorough job on a complicated return, and I sent it to my accountant to fill out the tax form, with everything laid out in a spreadsheet. They sent it back for final review, and I had Codex check it; it was riddled with errors. The refund was nearly $2k lower than it should have been, and they put a bunch of stuff into the wrong fields. Had to go back and forth multiple times to get it 100% correct. Made me wonder how many previous years' returns were wrong.

I feel like we're going to get to a point where it's mandatory to use AI for certain tasks - humans just can't be trusted to get things right that require a level of precision.

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