General Discussion

My (widely used) bookkeeping software no longer knows how to automatically categorize transactions. For years it would make decent attempts at guessing at how certain transactions should be categorized -- based, presumably, on how I had categorized those same transactions in the past -- and it would get it right the vast majority of the time. This saved me time, since it would fill in what it thought the category should be before I manually completed the process.

For a while now, it has not been close at categorizing anything, getting things obviously wrong even though it recognized those transactions for years, forcing me to have to switch every wrong categorization to the correct one before manually submitting. Surely not a coincidence that this started happening right around the same time that the software company started touting its new AI-powered dashboard that it wants all its customers to use.

For what it's worth, bookkeeping software company, if you think I'm going to let your AI do my books for me, you must be out of your minds.