Then I have good news, you can save even more money by cancelling your Claude plan and using GnuCash for free, without having to worry about the inevitability of having your financials hallucinated.
Then I have good news, you can save even more money by cancelling your Claude plan and using GnuCash for free, without having to worry about the inevitability of having your financials hallucinated.
There's something to be said about first impressions and the GnuCash website's first impression does not give confidence in its ability to handle finances.
Ironically for this thread, I think an AI redesigned website would do wonders here.
A conventionally well-designed site is actually much less trustworthy for me.
GNU cash website immediately tells that it is not a Saas and doesn't need to upsell the latest trendy addons, for it to survive.
It tells that it is not "investing" in marketing to eventually turn a profit.
It is not looking for acquisition opportunities or next funding rounds.
If you want to see what a trustworthy website looks like, take a look at SQLite or postgresql or even this website itself.
I use GnuCash for my small business. I am not a programmer, but know enough to be dangerous. My use for AI was to have it write a small python script that will take my bank csv and set accounts properly based on how I have categorized them in GnuCash in the past, it spits out a clean csv to import into GnuCash. Now I can see exactly what the matches are, and the whole thing runs on my local computer. No worries about hallucination of new account names.
The python script is basic enough that even I can figure out what it is doing, and I still have to review the import to GnuCash and reconcile with my bank.
It is saving me about an hour of work every week right now.
I think this is my biggest use of AI - making small tools to do the work locally rather than sending things to the cloud to be stolen and messed with.
Csv files are fine with a bot categorizing the expenses.
No need to have a desktop app to do entry.
Why would I worry about an LLM properly cataloging expenses (book keepers job) when we keep human in the loop with the CPA to check their work?
I think you don’t understand the problem the AI solved/reduced costs on.