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mlmonkeyyesterday at 8:56 PM1 replyview on HN

I have a buddy who's a consultant. His niche area is Netsuite and Oracle (I think). He's an accountant by training and as a consultant his gig was setting up these instances for clients, charging them an arm and two legs. He'd spend a lot of time golfing, and doing these setups was more than enough money for him. In other words, he had cornered that little slice of the market and was making bank.

Shortly after ChatGPT 2.2(?) came out and hit mainstream, I was chatting with him (I was excited af about the possibilities of AI). He tried to pop by bubble by saying "I bet it can't do what I do for my job!".

So I decided to test it out. We went home and I pulled out my laptop. Went to chatgpt.com and then I asked him to enter the specifications of what Netsuite configuration he wanted. So he proceeded to type in the description of what he wanted, the various settings, configurations, etc. i.e., the specs that he typically gets from his clients. And asked it to give him the commands to set it up.

Lo and behold. ChatGPT came back with a series of commands that he needed to run; the options he needed to configure, etc.

He was crestfallen. "Those are the exact commands I run!"

Luckily for him he recovered. He has since settled on a small stable of clients, all privately held companies whose owners he knows and between them he makes enough to keep his golfing hobby fed.


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reactordevyesterday at 9:02 PM

Sometimes it's the service you provide, not the value. They know it's in good hands, as it's always been (even if they could have rolled their own ConsultBot 2.0)

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