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KPMG Wrote 100-Page Prompt To Build Agentic TaxBot

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Professional services firms are engineering AI agents through massive prompt documents to automate complex knowledge work. KPMG Australia developed a 100-page prompt that transforms tax legislation and partner expertise into an agent producing comprehensive tax advice within 24 hours rather than the traditional two-week timeline. The TaxBot searches distributed internal documents and Australian tax code to generate 25-page draft reports after collecting four to five inputs from tax agents. Chief Digital Officer John Munnelly said the system operates on KPMG Workbench, a global platform combining retrieval-augmented generation with models from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and Meta.

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Everything is 'different on Windows': Zed port delays highlight dev friction

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Graphics API, crash reporting and more: Making low-level code cross-platform for Windows is a challenge

Zed co-founder Max Brunsfeld has explained why the Windows port of the Rust-based editor is taking so long – illustrating the friction facing developers of cross-platform applications when including Microsoft's operating system.…

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