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typpoyesterday at 6:15 PM4 repliesview on HN

Lately my company has been doing a lot of complex accounting and reporting in spreadsheets. Overall was surprised by how well both GPT and Claude handled some of these extremely tedious tasks. Not uncommon to have an hours-long task compressed to minutes.

My anecdotal experience is GPT 5.2 Pro is decently ahead of Claude Opus 4.5 in this category when it gets to the tricky stuff, both in presentation and accuracy. The long reasoning seems to help a lot. But, apparently the benchmarks do not agree.

Edit - noticed OpenAI specifically focuses on finance use cases in their gpt-5.3-codex blog as well https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/


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someuser54541yesterday at 9:50 PM

I feel like I'd be really skeptical of results from a non-deterministic model for something as precise as accounting....

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sdf2erfyesterday at 6:31 PM

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belteryesterday at 6:48 PM

Dont use Excel for accounting....

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