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Your AI can’t read an invoice. That should worry you more than whether it can pass a math exam

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21.04.2026

Your AI can’t read an invoice. That should worry you more than whether it can pass a math exam

When models cannot get the simple stuff right, that’s a cause for serious concern.

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I have been thinking about a question that nobody in enterprise software seems to want to sit with: why can the most advanced AI models in the world solve Olympiad-level mathematics but fail to reliably extract a total from an invoice?

This is not an academic exercise for me. I have been building automation software for twenty years. My company has processed billions of documents for some of the largest enterprises in the........

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