Rule-based work isn't a career anymore. It's a prompt.
In every rule-based profession, humans are now the slow, expensive, error-prone option.
Claude Opus 5 got 20 for 20 at 100% and wrapped each task in minutes, while 12 licensed CPAs landed anywhere from 0% to about 90%, with several running out the 3-hour clock.
“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants
Good discussion here: mercor.com/blog/human-baseli…
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AI may automate much of the routine work currently done by junior lawyers, consultants, bankers, and advertisers.
"A chunk of what the people at the bottom of the pyramid were doing—what happens to that? The only thing you can say is that, if you have never worked at a law firm or at Bain, BCG, or McKinsey, you are probably not going to have a good idea of how this works."
Benedict Evans (technology analyst, writer, and former a16z partner).
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