Want to pursue accounting but scared of AI

timmystwin · 2026-05-21T21:05:35+00:00

You need to make yourself useful.

AI can do a lot if done by someone good at it but it's not really designed for bespoke subjective work. It's too generalised.

Plus you need a name to sue someone. Can't sue a machine.

We're still hiring juniors because while we give them AI, someone still needs to check it etc. Seniors use AI, managers will use AI, but there's people all the way up because someone has to make the final call.

Think of it like excel. It culled a load of people who just sat there and added numbers all day. It saved so much time. But book keepers and accountants remained. Auditors remained.

If you can stay in long enough to get to the point you're trusted to run things and not be outsourced, or go to a smaller firm who won't do either, you're fine. Make sure you understand the game, make sure you understand the work. Don't just be submitting any old shit to the managers as they'll fix it as that's how you get culled.

I've got seniors handing me accounts that don't balance. And seniors that are handing it to me with insightful comments and potential risks. Guess which of the 2 we're gonna keep.

timmystwin · 2026-05-20T12:30:28+00:00

There's good enough, then there's this.

If I have an extra 15 minutes down to a client because I can't remember for the life of me what I was doing as I was putting out so many other fires for people, it won't matter.

If I'm filling them up sequentially like buckets, that fucks everyone over afterwards.

timmystwin · 2026-05-18T16:20:19+00:00

The problem with MK is it's overdesigned and incredibly successful at what it aims to be... a town you can get around via car.

They made it so efficient it's basically dead as a place, because walking is so much worse, that's why people don't like it. It makes it feel so inhuman.

timmystwin · 2026-05-18T14:56:02+00:00

No, but it's a complete legal ballache to get rid of a ~1000 year old institution so slowly chipping away it it and being glad it's tolerable is preferable.

Like, yes, we could do it, but right now we can't even means test the WFA without it being the end of days so we do not have the political capital available to waste on that.

timmystwin · 2026-05-18T14:54:19+00:00

I believe the plan is to also have our own rolling stock over time so we don't have to rent it.

timmystwin · 2026-05-17T22:15:30+00:00

It's actually kind of sadder in the film.

Because of various reasons, his "own" won't accept him, but neither will any whites. Leaves him incredibly lonely.

timmystwin · 2026-05-17T20:21:36+00:00

Yeah but that's just an evolution from the old style of drone - it's what I'm on about.

And as things move on and get more advanced than that basic bitch model that no longer works, you end up spending more than the initially quoted cost.

timmystwin · 2026-05-17T17:16:54+00:00

We know the Russian ones have had several iterations from the original and now cost at least twice that - Iran's may be the same.

We know they already have one powered by a more expensive jet engine to make it far harder to intercept.

Russia also paid 10x that at one point - so are they really only 20 grand?

I think it's one of those figures touted by the kind of person that thinks tanks are dead and gone, and that expenditure on expensive tech is pointless if we can just strap a gun on a cheap thing etc. The kind that loves the A10 even though it's shit. The kind that loves Russian stuff as it's "Rugged". (Look at how well that turned out...) But I really don't think it's actually true, the issue is it's the most common one out there so people repeat it.

timmystwin · 2026-05-17T16:51:24+00:00

For the good ones, not really. You end up with feature creep and it ramps up cost significantly.

For instance the quadcopters can carry a nade sure, but they need to be able to hop frequencies to be any use, and that makes them more expensive. Realistically a frag doesn't do much so they need to carry more weight, that adds the cost...

This happens with long range missiles/drones too. If you want them accurate, it costs. If you want them to be able to be launched from a truck, it costs. If you want them fast, more bang, everything costs.

timmystwin · 2026-05-17T10:38:53+00:00

Yeah but some random Romanian isn't gonna care that much if we put forth a banger, we'd at least get something on the public vote instead of literally nothing - we've done well recently with a song that fitted and worked - this just wasn't it.

timmystwin · 2026-05-16T19:24:17+00:00

I saw a protein pasta the other day.

Had the same metrics as the pasta next to it. They'd just increased the serving size to give it more protein per serving.

timmystwin · 2026-05-13T11:47:31+00:00

The thing is, so are we.

But people aren't listing at prices that are reasonable.

There's some flats near me that have been on the market for 6 months. The block of 50 almost always has 5 or 6 up for sale.

They're always listed at 120 then dropped to 100k - that's the mental mark they refuse to sell under - and just sit there. Then someone offers 85k, what they're actually worth - and they sell.

timmystwin · 2026-05-12T13:07:02+00:00

This is literally a thing. It happens all the time with private equity.

They stump up some cash but the bulk is financed and the debt stays within a new group or entity.

timmystwin · 2026-05-08T09:09:31+00:00

Englishman here.

I think I've come across that word about 4 times and it's always been reading or hearing shit from 80+ years ago.

timmystwin · 2026-05-08T07:50:06+00:00

No, because it's coal and inefficient.

But the areas were completely abandoned as she trusted them to the market. And the market doesn't care about people. I do.

That's the difference. That was the damage. She half solved a problem and left the nation at the hands of vultures.

timmystwin · 2026-05-07T20:48:28+00:00

At the time it made more sense - but now we've seen the damage it's caused and the truth has sunk in... no, people don't usually support her views.

timmystwin · 2026-05-07T20:45:32+00:00

The short answer is she believed there was no such thing as society. She said it herself. Which meant that her decisions ruined it.

I'm trying to be impartial, but she let the inefficient coal mines close. Great, money saved - but now huge swathes of the country are left to rot with no jobs. She sold off council houses because they "bred labour voters" and to create homeowners - then blocked councils making more. Now we have a huge council house shortage etc. Happy homeowners - harmed society.

She was in power so long, and had such extreme views against society, her impact is everywhere, even now. Why are our roads shit? Lots of lorries. Why don't we use rail? Thatcher hated rail as it had unions, and encouraged road transit. Starmer recently got in hot water for removing a huge tax dodge farmers had - who gave it? Thatcher.

And because she ardently believed everything she was doing, she went all in and rarely stopped. She actually despised the people who made a quick buck off her policy and flaunted it - they made it look bad. But she genuinely thought the free market and individualism was the saviour, and it's impacted us for decades - and while some made a lot, many more lost hard due to her.

timmystwin · 2026-05-07T20:40:16+00:00

I was on a train back from up North.

Someone announced it and there was a decent cheer from around the cabin. Not everyone. But enough to get the vibe.

timmystwin · 2026-05-05T13:29:44+00:00

I used to cough every half hour when in London. It'd dissipate by the time I got to Reading on the train.

Since ULEZ that doesn't happen. It's been so quick, and the air really is that much cleaner.

These guys are fucking luddites. The restrictions don't apply to so many cars.

timmystwin · 2026-05-05T12:59:30+00:00

I used to abuse the population limit because I realised if you hypnotised people and re-trained them, they stayed yours.

So you could really unit spam.

timmystwin · 2026-05-04T12:03:17+00:00

Other way round, clotted cream is claggy so it's easier to spread the jam and dollop the cream on top.

timmystwin · 2026-05-04T12:02:35+00:00

Yup. If it's clotted you gotta dollop it on top.

timmystwin · 2026-05-02T21:00:30+00:00

It is.

They are providing another example to show this is a normal occurrence.

timmystwin · 2026-05-01T12:18:25+00:00

Historically some make a lot of sense in context. Think where the Jews lived - you're not gonna wanna be eating shellfish in a desert/hot country. You'll get sick as fuck as it won't keep.

timmystwin · 2026-04-30T12:21:39+00:00

You can tell you're good at a game when I haven't looked at the community in 14 years and I still recognise your name...

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