[thfuran]

Whether something is better than nothing depends on its error rate and the consequences of an error.

[lazide]

And the awareness that nothing is perfect, including manual reconciliation.

[snapcaster]

Fair, but also humans working manually don't have a 0% error rate

[bsder]

I thought the whole point of double entry bookkeeping is to make sure that the error rate is, in fact, precisely 0% and verifiably so.

[lmz]

You can still reconcile the wrong things and have the books balance. e.g. you sell a subscription for $1. User A paid on the 1st, user B paid on the 3rd. You mistakenly reconcile user A's payment to user B's bill and vice versa. Your books still balance, but you better hope you didn't charge user A any late fees.

[withinboredom]

Right. Like now I'm wondering if I should edit my statement description in Stripe to be adversarial to AI reconcilers; just for giggles.

[benreesman]

The precision/recall behavior of LLMs tends to get glossed over.

You’re quite right.