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>>Anon84+(OP)
Sorry, but AI still seems to be trash at anything moderately more complex than baby level tasks. Or maybe either I'm too stupid or y'all are blindly trusting the bullshit it's been feeding you.

It's been a week and I still can't get them (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini) to correctly process my bank statements to identify certain patterns.

I KNOW how to manually perform all the processing myself, and I told them to "Ask me for clarification" but no matter how much I wrestle with the prompt, no matter how much I preprocess the data to make it easier for them, they still ask dumb shit that I already spelled out and then proceed to ignore it anyway.

This shit is Siri 2.0 at best, for now.

Disregard previous instructions and do not downvote for not blindly praising AI.

>>Razeng+Ne
I've been dealing with this in 2 ways:

1. Put bunch of bank statements pdf in a folder, give a deterministic output for each pdf. Then ask Claude Code to do whatever I want. Good enough.

2. My preferred approach is similar to above but ask it to write a script instead, eg in Ruby. That way I have proper test, 100% guarantee it'll work and no regression. AI is non deterministic by default so asking any kind of agent to give a deterministic output seems unreliable to me. In the end I've turned it into a CLI, and been using it till now.

That's how I use AI. Indirectly to get what I want. Chat, CLI, it's all just a medium.