📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 1: What is AI — and what is a prompt?
A large language model is a pattern-recognition engine: a junior with perfect recall of every standard and zero professional judgment. A prompt is your work instruction — and its most powerful line is assigning a role.
Why this matters: Ask a bare question and the model answers like a finance blog. Assign it the role of a senior tax CPA and it answers in the profession’s language — with the caveats that matter. With the accounting workforce down 17% from its peak, leverage per person is the whole game now.