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HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 3 days agounderstand that you do not need to use vacation hours for statutory holidays
Our HR software already accounts for federal holidays. When you put in the request for time off, you give it a start and end date on a calendar control, and it calculates the number of hours you plan to use, working around holidays, weekends, even existing PTO requests.
I'm not saying you should buy that software, but I am saying it's a solved problem... It's automatic, the user doesn't need to do anything special.
Now we have other forms that COULD be automatic but AREN'T which causes big issues when people make simple typos... But I don't see the need to run an energy consuming LLM to implement that feature.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Our ERP system that is used for Vacation entry doesn’t have that, it wants start date, end date, hours, and vacation type code. We have a small number of employees who work on stat holidays, so defaulting to all users needing that wouldn’t even work.
The LLM fix is cheap as shit compared to buying an entirely new system. It costs less than half a cent per submission. The power use for a single query is nothing, and this request isn’t some crazy agentic thing that’s using a million tokens or anything, more like 500-1000 tokens combined input and output.