▲ 559 ▼ Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech: "There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth." (futurism.com) submitted 1 week ago by eicker@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 week ago (3 children) Office scripts are difficult yes permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago (2 children) There are Python tools for interacting with xlsx which are pretty nice, but I'm not going to use that to edit a spreadsheet. Kind of defeats the purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 child) Well I can give an example of why a tool like that is useful. Export data for a client form internal system but that export looks like shit. I could spend an hour cleaning it up (multiplied by the number of other workers needing to do similar things) or I could write an office script and create essentially an import template that formats it nicely. I'm choosing the latter every time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago Sounds pretty reasonable actually. We could probably use something like that for some of the reports we make. I'll look in to it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago (2 children) There are Python tools for interacting with xlsx which are pretty nice, but I'm not going to use that to edit a spreadsheet. Kind of defeats the purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 child) Well I can give an example of why a tool like that is useful. Export data for a client form internal system but that export looks like shit. I could spend an hour cleaning it up (multiplied by the number of other workers needing to do similar things) or I could write an office script and create essentially an import template that formats it nicely. I'm choosing the latter every time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago Sounds pretty reasonable actually. We could probably use something like that for some of the reports we make. I'll look in to it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 child) Well I can give an example of why a tool like that is useful. Export data for a client form internal system but that export looks like shit. I could spend an hour cleaning it up (multiplied by the number of other workers needing to do similar things) or I could write an office script and create essentially an import template that formats it nicely. I'm choosing the latter every time. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago Sounds pretty reasonable actually. We could probably use something like that for some of the reports we make. I'll look in to it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago Sounds pretty reasonable actually. We could probably use something like that for some of the reports we make. I'll look in to it. permalink fedilink source parent