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New comment by holdingunsteady in "Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments"

holdingunsteady — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:22:17 +0000

Yeah, I looked him up just now actually, and he has a 3-star rating on Yelp... Which I think is pretty low for accountants?

I think the red flag should have been when he printed out all my tax returns and made me pick them up in person, and didn't even send a digital copy.

New comment by holdingunsteady in "Amazon cuts more jobs, in devices unit, after flurry of product rollouts"

holdingunsteady — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:06:52 +0000

Right after the Microsoft "layoffs"... Is the bubble finally popping?

New comment by holdingunsteady in "Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments"

holdingunsteady — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:06:00 +0000

My tax accountant mis-filed my taxes a couple years ago, which cost me about $20K (which I learned after I switched to another accountant later). Don't know if Claude / GPT would make the same mistake or not given SOTA today, but feels like there's an opportunity for models to be saving me thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a year.

New comment by holdingunsteady in "Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude"

holdingunsteady — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:57:34 +0000

Cancer solved by 2030.

New comment by holdingunsteady in "Start Doing Graph Theory"

holdingunsteady — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:56:35 +0000

Feel like there's so much opportunity to combine great educational material with more interactive visualizations, given how easy it is to create great visualizations (with Claude, etc) nowadays. Especially in graph theory.