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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by holoduke on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:28AM (#47625442)
Can't we just use claude desktop / cli to generate an invoice. In my experience if you provide some skills and access to some data it can generate pretty consistent invoices. No other tools needed at all.
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by flexagoon on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:44AM (#47625566)
Invoices have strict requirements and having the model accidentally hallucinate and make an incorrect invoice could put you in legal trouble. Besides, why would you pay for tokens instead of using a free tool?
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by monooso on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:14AM (#47625795)
My clients love non-deterministic invoices.
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by vldszn on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:41AM (#47626017)
lol, exactly xd
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by nottorp on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:56AM (#47626158)
But if they use "AI" to approve them, you can pray that your "AI" generates an invoice for 100x the amount owed and their "AI" pays!
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by holoduke on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:27PM (#47632516)
My Claude can create a reuse a 200% deterministic script that generates invoices tailored exactly to my needs. No way any other tool can match that. You guys live in ancient times
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Re:Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox ... by thfuran on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:51AM (#47625621)
Why would you knowingly generate invoices that are sometimes wrong? That’s probably illegal and certainly going to be a pain in the ass. Why make a critical business function dependent of the availability of an external service when you could easily do it locally?
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