[afavour]

Get back to me when AI is actually reliably correct about any technical field.

Accounting exams are gatekeeping, yes. The good kind of gatekeeping where you make sure the people doing the job are actually capable. And you have avenues to punish those who fail their clients.

> This also applies to universities

Eh. I’d say the actual academics are about 1/3 of the university experience. The rest is networking and teaching you how to think and solve problems on a more abstract level. I’d say the people who farm that (and particularly the abstract thinking part) out to AI are going to be the ones left at disadvantage in the future. You’re completely replaceable.

[nottorp]

> Get back to me when AI is actually reliably correct about any technical field.

For exams and other tutorial like material* the LLMs have enough public training data for it to be good enough.

* all those vibe coded apps that are 95% boilerplate.

[afavour]

I’m not talking about AI passing the exam, I’m talking about AI doing the actual job the exam qualifies you for.

[nottorp]

That ain't going to happen with LLMs.

And no one is financing anything but LLMs at the moment.

[random9749832]

At the end of the day the job market will correct itself accordingly which is what most people who bother going to university or collecting any certificate care about. And right now it is already looking bleak. https://accountancyage.com/2025/09/29/pwcs-graduate-glow-up-...

Might be time we start adapting the pipeline into employment and start revising the importance of some of these gatekeepers before more people fall into unnecessary debt.