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Posted by louiereederson 4 days ago

Agents for financial services and insurance(www.anthropic.com)
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BrandiATMuhkuh 4 days ago|
we tried it just before. it's interesting what it does. writing lots of python scripts.

however the result (excel/spreadsheet) looks different each time you run it. Which is annoying when you run it at the end of each month.

btw: this is not surprising when you look at the low details the skills have.

dkersten 4 days ago||
Given the quality of Claude code lately, I wouldn’t trust them in financial services.
0123456789ABCDE 4 days ago||
patagonia is gonna to lose some clientele
KellyCriterion 4 days ago|
haha, insider! :-D

Just yesterday I told a colleague that he should by some of their vests for his company :-D

simianwords 4 days ago||
Does anyone else think "agents" are the wrong abstractions? Agents look like UI wrappers over LLM's - they are inherently not composable. Tailor made agents for UI's don't seem to scale. I predict they wont take off.

What I predict instead is that we will have a common UI layer plugin and a "protocol" than can speak to ui elements -- this might be more composable.

dakolli 4 days ago||
Why would this be useful in a zero sum environment like markets, why would you want to use the same tool that everyone else has access too? Top performers will always be the people that hand craft their solutions, just like why the top performers in the watch space are the people that make handmade watches in Switzerland not the guys make 100k watches a month in China.
bharxhav 3 days ago||
"agents"

Damn, they keep brainwashing people into thinking LLMs are intelligent, meanwhile they be translating into somewhat coherent words and fool the world.

When they're right, they polish their intelligence badge. When they're wrong, we prompted incorrectly.

jesterson 5 hours ago|
They employ worst human habits, so no wonder
traceroute66 4 days ago||
I stopped reading at paragraph one:

"ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month-end"

Ok, maybe you can squeeze a vaguely passable pitchbook out of Claude.

But screening KYC files or closing books at month-end ?

"I'll have some of what they're smoking" as the cool kids say.

No regulator or tax office on this planet is going to accept the "but Claude said it was ok" excuse.

The only people who are going to profit out of this are Anthropic, Lawyers and Governments (through increased fines).

Lio 4 days ago||
Wow, really going for those white collar jobs. This is going to be an interesting few years.
23dsfds 4 days ago||
What will happen is what has happened for the past few years: mostly nothing. People employed, things keep trucking forward.

LLMs do not change the equation all that much: human's ability to imagine is the most scarce resource on the planet and LLMs will not help all that much with it.

scottyah 4 days ago||
Just a natural rebalancing of the Rise of the Laptop Class. I think we'll get more productive as the white collar jobs become more efficient, and less days with 8hrs of meetings and responding to emails from people too lazy to look information up themselves.
guluarte 4 days ago||
How long until Anthropic or OpenAI builds an interview platform around AI tools, where candidates build a feature end to end using AI?

As someone who has been interviewing lately, I think this is the next step after leetcode and whiteboard style interviews.

sharadov 4 days ago|
Next couple weeks - financial and insurance services announce layoffs!
KellyCriterion 4 days ago|
There was a paper lately, claiming that bank & insurances are going to layoff around 200k in the next years globally. (which would be according to them a reduction of 3-4% of finance people)
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