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Small-business head of accounting automates away an assistant role
low specificsAdded 2026-10-14
- Business
- Small business accounting department (per spouse on HN)
- Task
- Processing data that arrives in non-standard formats and generating documents from it
- Result
- "her workload is way down, and when her assistant quit she automated away his whole position" (still reviews everything)
- Tools
- Setup
- not stated
- Source
- hn.algolia.com ↗
- Specifics rating
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Results as reported by the source; not independently verified.
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