▲ 703 ▼ It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com) submitted 1 year ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 101 comments fedilink hide all child comments Money quote: Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.
[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children) I mean... Yeah, but the same can be said for VB? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago Especially since VBA can make calls to the Windows API directly and through that avenue do all kinds of funky things to your system. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CameronDev@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago Yeah, but lots more tooling and libraries for Python. Its just one more attack surface 🤷 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago Especially since VBA can make calls to the Windows API directly and through that avenue do all kinds of funky things to your system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago Yeah, but lots more tooling and libraries for Python. Its just one more attack surface 🤷 permalink fedilink source parent