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We put the Thing That Can't Do Numbers™ in your spreadsheets (thelemmy.club)

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[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 39 points 3 months ago

When you use spread sheets a lot, much of what makes you productive is that you know exactly what Excel will do. Like yes I know it's going to try to increment when actually I want to fill this column with 1s or whatever, but I can hold ctrl and override it and all is good.

With copilot, you will never be sure what it's going to do. I feel like it would slow me down even if it guessed right 90% of the time.

[-] sudo@programming.dev 37 points 3 months ago

That's not just limited to excel. The basic value of computers is how deterministic they are. AI is just probability programs that are reintroduce chaos into the system.