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Hope that accountant billed double for having to deal with this on a weekend
Big glass of cold water thrown in my face.
Found an error in our financial projections late last night. Accountant was offline. Asked Claude to model the impact on revenue, cash, and EBITDA.
It gave me a catastrophic answer. And was so damn confident about it.
I legit spiraled
Leave it to accountants to have a conference on a weekend to talk about working smarter, not harder.
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