My god, the accountants who eventually have to clean up this mess will make so goddamn much money.
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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I'm sure they'll just hire another professional services company.
GDP economists hate this one weird trick!
You put another professional services company what I think you meant is another ai powered company
Ah, yes, firing everyone that's not a sycophant. That always ends up well for any organisation. /s
It's also just generally a good barometer of a good idea. If people can't independently evaluate an idea and come to a similar conclusion on their own, it just means that you simply apply coercion and then you get to be right! It's excellent as a management practice which I'll note all the big 4 claim to offer...
Well, it’s not like PwC does stuff where anally-retentive levels of accuracy and precision are required, so I can see why they’d be all for AI. /s
Deloitte and ~~Arthur Andersen~~ Accenture are saying the same things. Are KPMG and EY going the same route or looking for the market opportunity of “being correct” which I’ve heard is important in accountancy.
Accidenture
ftfy
But can you get bail out money for being correct?
“Fuck them. And any “AI First” company. Do you think we forgot about “cloud first”? Or that Boeing is a “digital company that just happens to sell airplanes”?
Fucking hype chasing drooling brainwashed simpletons
Yes, actually, i dont, you don't, but "we" forget shit like this all day,.every day, all the fucking Time
Once this shit is over, most people will not have a single fucking clue what any of these fucking evil companies did.
Hell, even now, Facebook/ Instagram's meta is fucking the world, and most of their users are clueless while it's going on
Hell, even now, Facebook/ Instagram’s meta is fucking the world, and most of their users are clueless while it’s going on
Me, still boycotting Coke over their murder of union organizers like the Japanese soldiers still manning their post decades after the war ended.
Name me an (IT) consulting company which isn't pushing AI.
Can't wait for this to spoil in the fridge.
You must adhere to my religion or you will no longer be working for this company.
So, hiring PwC is the same as using AI?
Yes, so you should ask for a big discount.
Not only that, from the article they are actively trying to become a Consultancy As A Service company, where somehow other companies would pay a subscription fee to.... talk to their AI, I guess?
The only time I've had anything to do with PwC, it was to get their advice on a compliance / tax related process. And it was less about the process itself or the 3 page pdf they produced (which much cheaper companies could have done better) and more because their "seal of approval" would give my company some leverage if the IRS came to audit us. "This was designed with PwC" means "we tried really really hard to abide by the incredibly confusing wording of the law".
I doubt that "we asked PwC's chatbot" will have the same level of clout, but these guys have connections everywhere so I'm sure they will lobby pretty hard to get some ad-hoc law or some level of "certification" on the output of their future AI.
Sounds about right, in a wrong sort of way!
Over my side of the plastic swamp, we have so many embroilments with PwC and Dellioit being soooo amazing... selling private information, etc. Also they ae shit at other things and half my job has been fixing the corrupt bastards outputs (unrelated to the fraud stuff - a different fraud)
Will age like milk
Oh shit, I applied to that company a few days ago. Guess I'll be telling them to fuck right off when they call back
Make them hire and then fire you. lol
Would be an option, firing someone after their trial period (usually 3 months) is over is an incredible pain in the ass around here lol
Consultants cutting numbers due to upcoming recession phrased as a way to stave off recession.
It's the biggest racketeering scheme in history and seems like everyone wants in
I just saw an email about a job opening with them, couldn't figure out if it was within PwC or for PwC as a recruit. Either way, I kind of decided against it after reading about some of their legal issues from Wikipedia.
I'm so tired of seeing AI generated images of robots using computers
Well they had a good run