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If your prompt was more complex than "do my taxes", then this is irrelevant.

it was many hours of working with codex, guidance and comparing to known-good outputs from previous years, but a sufficiently smart model would be able to just do it without any steering; it'd still take hours, but my input wouldn't be necessary. a harness for getting this done probably exists today, gastown perhaps or something that the frontier labs are sitting on.

If you can assume "a sufficiently smart piece of technology" that doesn't exist now, a lot of problems become trivial

yes.

but then, respect the trendline, especially if it's exponential.

Is it exponential or logistic?

> but a sufficiently smart model would be able to just do it without any steering;

Yeah, yeah, we've heard "our models will be doing everything" for close to three years now.

> a harness for getting this done probably exists today, gastown perhaps

That got a chuckle and a facepalm out of me. I would at least consider you half-serious if you said "openclaw", at least those people pretend to be attempting to automate their lives through LLMs (with zero tangible results, and with zero results available to non-tech people).

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