I have a business. Sometimes I buy things on Amazon. At tax time, I search for the big business items and categorize them in QuickBooks until I give up.

You know who doesn't give up? Claude, who doesn't seem to realize how shitty and slow QuickBooks Online is. It's even happy to click 19 times to do a split because I dared to add a router and shampoo to the same Amazon cart in a weak moment of convenience one night back in February 2025.

Some so-called skills are worth letting atrophy. Whatever I used to do with a janky browser plugin and two monitors full of Excel windows at tax time is one of them.

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xnx 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AI's superpower might be it's ability to serve as versatile and easy to use interface on top of systems with terrible UI, inconsistent data, etc.

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		DELIBERATELY terrible UI I wonder if you could get claude to serve up amazon in a reasonable way: - the search terms you asked for - filter out results you want to remove - no sponsored results - no recommendations for example, say I don't want "smart" <something>. I can't get rid of them from the results. "not smart" uses smart as a search term. Not only that, amazon devices always show up, I drown in sponsored results, and a good part of the page is my shopping cart, recommendations, and sometimes ask alexa popups. Amazon does not want this. The more stuff you wade through, the more ad revenue they get. The more impulse sales they get. The more amazon devices they sell. (and then amazon devices become a surveillance cash register sitting in your house)
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TacticalCoder 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Whatever I used to do with a janky browser plugin and two monitors full of Excel windows at tax time is one of them.

Yeah the amount of time the taxman has wasted in my life is beyond belief. I automated a lot of it myself over the years but now having the help of LLMs to fill the bullshit, pointless, Brazilian (the movie, not the country) crap to please mister taxman is a godsend.