Anthony Scilipoti

the 300 pages, but it gave me where to go.

So now I went there and now I could say, well, that means if that is what's happened, then we need to look at this other note to see the implications of that.

And then we got to look at the cash flow statement to see how it's actually impacting what ends up being reported as cash flow.

And so those linkages come.

The AI makes me get to the answer perhaps more quickly.

But if I don't already know where I want to go, then AI just gives me information.

But that information doesn't help my decision if I didn't start with where I want to get to.

If that's where investors go and that's where they're going, everything's going to AI.

The bottom level of being an analyst, the junior analyst is going to be replaced by an AI.

The one that said, find me all the references of, you know, where the company capitalized costs.

That the AI can do.

I get it.

But you need someone with experience to know which of those references matter and to what that means to the business.

And this brings about a number of challenges because, well, if that junior person doesn't learn, doesn't get on the in on the ground floor, they'll never learn to be able to make all those connections.

With my own children, I've seen growing up when we went to school and we were in elementary school.

We would be, you know, we'd have to do the math tables and recite them.

Two times two is four and so on.

I remember I was struggled with my nine times table and then my 12 times table.

And so I had to memorize them and get them going.

But then my children came along and they were using a calculator.