#agents
6 posts on this topic.
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A machine will read the invoice. Telling who it’s from is harder.
A document can be read entirely correctly and still nobody can tell who it belongs to. That’s where the expensive part begins — and you can tell a good system by what it does when it isn’t sure.
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When a machine retypes the invoices
With incoming invoices, the easy part is reading them, not deciding what can be trusted. So when the owner asks why artificial intelligence isn’t retyping them from PDFs instead of the bookkeeper, the short answer is that it can.
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AI that your data won’t leave
Companies want AI for summarizing and sorting text, but they’re afraid of sending their data outside. A language model can also run on a computer of your own — its answers are worse than the big online ones, but for plenty of tasks it’s more than enough.
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Yes, AI writes some of the code. Here’s how I keep an eye on it.
Clients usually don’t ask, even though they’re curious. So here’s the answer up front — along with the story of a check that introduced an error of its own, which it then took a different check to catch.
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How I took down my own website
I let AI work on my website, and along with the test copy it shut down the live one too — not once: the site went down and came back up seven times. I’m writing about it because it’s exactly what I want a client to know about me before they hire me.
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A website without WordPress
After ten years I threw out WordPress and wrote this site myself, in the same technology I use for clients. The content lives in text files next to the code, and a crew of AI agents looks after it.