Bennett Bernard

Accountant Developer

pros - Get your time back! - my own

[Bennett Bernard @TheRealTechCPA]

Doing taxes often feels like trading time for money. There's the onboarding, the actual prep, and the packaging and delivery to the client.

https://t.co/QCso9eo14b was born out of trying to give myself time back, while exceeding client expectations when delivering the return!

With TaxAvatar, you can securely create dynamic and engaging tax return walkthroughs with a state-of-the-art responsive AI agent. The AI agent only has the information you provide it - no hallucinations!

Instead of the client banging on your door with a million questions about their return, you can give them a TaxAvatar session link and let the AI agent take the first pass with them.

Let me be clear - this is NOT meant to replace the role of tax preparers! This rather is to give clients an informative and engaging way to receive their return and ask their questions, while also protecting the tax preparers time.

For questions that the AI cannot answer, or that the client still feels unclear about, they can flag for follow up with the tax preparer, and the AI will note these points of confusion in the summary that is available immediately after the session.

This is where I feel strongly about AI tools - in their use of making accountants more efficient at the work, provide better experiences to client, and as an added bonus, help us foster a better relationship with our clients #TaxTwitter

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@CharlesCMann @TheAtlantic @Graham__Hancock has always said!

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@jasonfried Sounds like something I’ve heard from another Jason @jasononfirms

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@HVACSEO Did you already get approved? Just finished the verification flow and am in pending status

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If you listen to the @BreakevenBroPod or follow me here on X, you know I find Anthropic’s pious attitude and doomerism insufferable and counterproductive.

But I have to say, they absolutely cooked with the last couple weeks of rollouts. Opus 5.5, Fable 5.2, Claude Sheets??!? Credit where credit is due

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I’m a big fan or voice interfaces too. Do you think there is a limit on sounding “too human” in certain applications?

I find myself building voice interfaces and still preferring something that clearly sounds AI versus trying to make it sound indistinguishable from a human but can’t quite tell you why

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@kunalabcdani @typesafeai Been experimenting with this + @openuidev. Find it pretty cool but when paired with gpt-live voice model it definitely was getting tripped up between what was rendering on screen and what the voice agent was narrating. Some fine-tuning to do!

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@Attorney_CPA @tailor_hartman Sadly true

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Are folks using Codex cloud environments much? If so, are you putting it on private network with Tailscale? Educate me

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@sdhilip Cool post. Love to hear how consulting engagements work in current times with so much changing constantly!

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Hey email at $99/yr is such a steal imo. No brainer

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I think AI will largely become commoditized in the short-medium term, as the intelligence needed to do majority of knowledge work tasks becomes cheaper and more ubiquitous.

Once the knowledge work of our current era is “solved”, we should be solving more difficult problems, necessitating even more of the math and physics intelligence.

Therefore if you were to map out the value of Anthropic/OpenAI, it would be increase/sharp decrease/humongous increase

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Excited for a future that looks like deploying robots into deep space with high intelligence and letting them get back to us once they've built habitations we can live in

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Lakers versus 76ers finals this year 76ers win in 5

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Oh and while we're on it -- very disappointed with the usage limits this week. Shame because it definitely got nerfed

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The Cursor subscription stuff confuses me... I got an email a few weeks ago that my Cursor cloud agent usage was up, but my grok bot continued to do major dev work as if nothing happened.

I take a couple days off of that dev work it was doing as I was busy with other stuff, but when I came back to Grok Bot it told me my cloud agent usage was up.

So how was I coding all this time prior? Genuinely confused. I don't think grok bot was coding on its own computer

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Having ambition and being-driven is not mutually exclusive to having fun and being default optimist

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TypeScript is ugly

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have a lot of resets banked going to see if we can make a fully compliant document portal on cloudflare infra

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@tailor_hartman Happy Birthday and may you enjoy Hyrule today!