What's Up with AI

Home   Events   Jobs   About Us I'll say upfront what I'll probably repeat on this blog more than once: I think AI is currently overrated in accounting relative to the hype around it, and I think Excel fluency remains underrated. That opinion is exactly why I think it's worth tracking AI honestly here — not as a hype machine, and not as a dismissal, but as a working professional trying to figure out what's real, what's marketing, and what's actually useful. This post is where that tracking starts. How We Got Here, Briefly AI didn't arrive suddenly in 2026 — it's been building for years, but the pace has genuinely compressed. The general-purpose chatbot era (roughly 2022–2024) proved large language models could write, summarize, and answer questions convincingly. What's changed since is the shift from models that talk to models that act. That shift has a name: agentic AI. Instead of asking a model a question and reading its answer,...