# AI training

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Weekly AI Roundup

Weekly AI Roundup for Accountants: The agents are taking the work that trained your juniors

Anthropic published its own workforce data: its AI agents now log six hours of runtime for every hour of staff time, and juniors fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires. The following week, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer launched agents that take tax work from source documents to finished workpapers, and Wells Fargo wrote down who answers for an agent's mistakes. The volume work that trained your juniors is going to the agents, so the training now has to be designed on purpose.

Peter McCarrollOctober 26, 2026

Leading AI Adoption

Scaling New Heights 2026: your staff must move up two levels — no one in Orlando showed how

Daniel Susskind told Scaling New Heights this is mass redeployment, not mass unemployment — your people doing different work, not losing their jobs. After four days in Orlando, the profession agrees its staff need to move up two levels. Almost no one onstage explained how — and the how is the part you can't buy in the vendor hall.

Peter McCarrollJune 19, 2026

Leading AI Adoption

The most valuable AI training for accountants might not count as CPD

In the last few months, agents running on Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 changed what AI can do — but the training most firms will buy to keep up is still a 2024 prompt-engineering course. The skills that actually build an AI-native team are learned through reps in your own work, and the most valuable may not even count as CPD. Here are the six questions to grade any AI training before you book it.

Peter McCarrollJune 10, 2026

Leading AI Adoption

Your team's AI failures are a skills gap in disguise

A staff member built a brilliant practice management dashboard with AI. One problem — the data that would make it work lives in three systems that don't talk to each other. That gap between vision and architecture is the same gap every CAS practice is hitting. The fix isn't more training. It's building artifacts that prove your team can do the work.

Peter McCarrollApril 5, 2026