[DougBTX]

> The hard part of accounting systems is doing the requirements analysis (including interviewing humans who give inaccurate or incomplete answers) and writing detailed functional specifications which account for every possible edge case.

So lots of tedious repetitive manipulation of language to extract facts and transform them into a systematic format? My prediction: LLMs are going to eat that for breakfast.

(Honestly it is a great business idea for someone with the right contacts. Lots of big customers with deep pockets and large private datasets to train against that might now have a solution to a problem which was previously intractable in scale.)

[nradov]

None of those customers have actual data sets to train against when it comes to ERP and accounting software requirements analysis. The data that exists at all is scattered across random Word documents, wiki pages, paper notebooks, and legacy requirements management systems. Most of it is summarized. It's not recordings of past interviews with SMEs that business analysts and product owners conducted to extract functional requirements. In order to train an LLM to conduct such interviews you would have to obtain actual transcripts of such interviews. Not impossible, but unlikely to happen anytime soon.