It's about time all those math types learned to relax a bit. These numbers in these spreadsheets don't need to be exact all the time. It's really more about the overall flavor of the spreadsheet than how "right" any individual field is. Error bars are there for a reason people!

Excel is the fucking backbone of Microsoft Office. It's solid and backwards compatible for a couple of decades. Excel is the one reason business sticks with Office. It never fails, everyone knows it, nothing can replace it. You cannot trust any other spreadsheet to perfectly translate if you move away from Excel. The world runs on Excel.

I never imagined Microsoft would fuck with Excel. Ever. There's a fairy tale about killing the golden goose, can't remember how it goes.

Some computer scientists really went "we made a computer that is programmed in a different way and is sometimes correct" and these idiot corpos went "wow put it in everything"

Trillions of dollars to develop a calculator that's wrong sometimes.

0% of the time it works because I shut that shit off the first minute I saw it

Excel is such an incredible piece of shit. There's many reasons to hate it for me, but what i hate the most is not being able to do relationships in any meaningful way. So often i need to have one to many relationships and this garbage makes it impossible. Data consistency? Nope. Opening a csv? Fuck you! Why the fuck are there online tools that are better at this shit? You had 40 years ffs. No amount of AI is going to fix this turd. God I hate Excel.

$20 of the time

Brian, I'm gonna be honest with you: That smells like pure gasoline.

Everyone else who's anti-AI:

• What is that smell? It smells like a used diaper filled with Indian food!
• What is that?! It smells like a turd covered in burnt hair!
• It smells like Bigfoot's dick!
• What is that stench?! It smells like the inside of a fake leg!

Did he just spend the first half of the article explaining why 'copilot in excel' (not agent mode) wasn't designed for calculation tasks, them finishes with complaining that on benchmarks it fails 80% of the time?

The 54% accuracy of agent mode should be called out, not the low accuracy of the thing that wasn't designed for it.

Damn thats high!/s