How often are you actually using AI day to day?
Maybe I’m just a slow adopter, but have it found it difficult to use effectively or trust with laying the ground work in pretty simple but tedious parts of the job. End up extensively checking or completely redoing work which has arguably worsened my productivity
Trying to separate the ppl who have fully drank the Kool Aid vs. the juniors who are doing most of the grunt work who may have a better view on where it’s helped in boosting productivity and where it lacks
Post not meant to be bearish on the tech btw, know it definitely has value. Just trying to see where I’m falling behind
What tech do you have? I find CoPilot basically useless except maybe to do basic research work that you still need to verify. Claude/ChatGPT are much better
Using gpt mainly. If you’ve used both, how big is the gap between Claude and gpt? Outside of research functions, has been a bit frustrating getting it integrated into ppt / excel workstreams, but that could very well be user error on my end
I spend roughly 60-80% of my time in Claude these days. Just go into ppts and excel to do finishing touches
In practice can you actually use Claude when the information/excel sheets are meant to be confidential? Incoming intern here just a bit confused
Ofc, enterprise license. It’s also connected to e.g. our emails and our entire data landscape so
Claude can get me 50-75% of the way there for a lot of things.
I guess as a 1Y associate I’m fucked
Do you find that once you start really using ChatGPT or Claude that you are able to give your analysts / associates more meaningful work?
Rogo is running all day
I cannot believe how often I see this comments out of banking. My main hypothesis is still that banks just don't let people access good models (yet).
I recently worked at an MBB and the whole org was hooked on AI. Nobody used Copilot though and a limited amount only used ChatGPT. Most of the usage was coming through either Claude Desktop directly or Cursor (with Claude Opus Max as the model behind it).
It is impossible for you to have access to these tools and not overuse them, because they make basic stuff so much easier.
Yes the tools are beyond shit and that leads many seniors to believe it's a problem with the model instead
I use it 24/7. Practically every keystroke I make is a prompt for Claude Desktop or Claude Code. These models are intelligent enough to navigate virtually any app on your computer.
We can tell.
Shows in your social skills and executive brain function.
As you read over this thread, do you ever have a moment of self-reflection and realize you've been wrong about everything? You've been insisting for months that AI is a bubble, and yet here we have finance professionals clamoring to access Claude, along with articles like this about solo founders starting 7 figure businesses with AI. How much evidence has to pile up before you admit you were wrong??
The only reason why I tag you and @Ozymandia so much is so I can leave a record of your retarded AI skepticism on this forum, even as evidence kept piling up in the opposite direction. I will genuinly enjoy when people discover these threads years from now and see your stupidity and lack of vision.
The slow adoption is the bank’s fault. Cowork has been out for a a year+ and most banks are still asking us to use heavily neutered internal chatbots because they’re so slow to adopt the tools. Our bank doesn’t even have the PowerPoint or Excel Claude add in yet lol. If I had access to these things on my work computer, I’m sure I would use them all the time.
Agreed, my bank just rolled out claude within the chatbot so higher capabilities are a ways off. ppt capabilities make worse slides than a fifth grader and while admittedly excel is not horrible, having to audit every cell is a huge time sink that barely saves me any time
Given what AI can already do today, where do you guys think this goes over the next 3–5 years?
How much of the analyst/associate job actually survives? 20%? 50%? Or is the real outcome that teams stay roughly the same size but everyone gets 2–3x more productive—more scenarios, more complex models, deeper analysis, all with the same deadlines?
I agree, there’s def going to be junior level compression.
I guess you’ll still need people to promote to MD in 10 years so they can’t fire everyone. But the expected wealth / value / stability of this career seems mid
(current SA) We don’t have tools that feed directly into ppt or excel, so no direct slide gen or data work, but I’m definitely using it all day just to prompt on different business things and writing (not direct copy paste if I can help it), as well as general Excel help if I need it
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