How a Smart Bookkeeper Uses AI

What do you think this changes? What do you think AI changes about the way that we choose software and build a tech stack in the future in practice?

Yeah, it's interesting, and there's, I mean, there's dual thoughts, isn't there, on whether it will completely obliterate kind of the software companies or-

Yeah

... not.

And I think, I think it will be a bit of a shakedown in that some of them will not be deemed necessary at the moment.

Mm-hmm.

Certainly, yeah, if you're not core to, to the app stack or essential to things, then it is quite easy to build something quick that plugs in and-

Mm

... and it, and it, it works the way you want it to.

But there's still a lot to be said.

If, for me, I, I mean it's back to the old school Xero model, I guess, of when they were like, it was all ecosystem was sharing and working, and that if, if, if an app can share its API, and most of them do, are open, and you can connect to it and do things with it, that's a much better proposition than closing things off and saying, you know, we're gonna bin our practice management off because it won't connect to certain things, and some of the things we can do are limited.

Mm-hmm.

If that would've been more open to connection, we would've kept it.

Um, so it'll be interesting on, yeah, what gets shared and how we can share, I guess, and, and what-

Mm

... data they'll let you lu- use versus, versus not, I guess, will be f- as what, the way I see it anyway.

And look, not everyone's as geeky as, as I am, so I don't expect everyone to suddenly start building loads of stuff and doing crazy stuff, but-

Well, I didn't think I was a geek until I met you.

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