Title: Throw away account.<p>I work as a programmer at a medium sized old school insurance company in the midwest on an internal application which assigns documents to a group of analysts for review. Accurate data is very important but we frequently get missing, incomplete or incorrect data in our claims, insurance adjustments or estimates.<p>A few months ago I had the opportunity to spend some time in one of our analyst centers to learn how they work. We have a total 80 analysts who review and scrub data mostly based on experience, lookups, cross comparison or simply informed guesses.<p>I found the work rather mindless and depressing which immediately made me brainstorm how I could automate the process given that I saw most of the same patterns repeating over and over.<p>So...I spent the next few months after work writing a small component which uses the same heuristics, lookups, guesses and techniques used by the analysts to correct the data. From my testing and comparing already reviewed documents with my output, it&#x27;s at least as effective as our analyst team in a majority of cases.<p>So...what do I do now? Do I tell my management and potentially cost 80 people their jobs or do I just keep it to myself? I know some of the analysts are single mothers or people close to retirement.
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