Have You Seen the New Excel?

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kernalix7•25 minutes ago

The Excel flip lands. AI is a tool. People could adapt and use it, instead a lot of the panic sounds like resistance dressed up as analysis.

lazytitanic•about 2 hours ago

Clearly I've been overengineering by using code to remotely control industry hardware in real-time. I should've been using a spreadsheet all along!

The article says that code is designed for computers to read, not humans, when in fact code is designed for both.

Spreadsheets and code have their respective applications.

anonzzzies•about 2 hours ago

One of my early gigs was in a, for my country and the standards at the time (90s), large factory; they ran almost everything on Excel and Access. From the erp, hrm, crm, entry gates, phone system, truck loading bays, industrial systems if they could be accessed via Windows, cafetarias PoSs etc. VBA plugged into everything with the sysadmin doing 'version management' of 1000s of evolving data mixed with code files on networking (Novell I think when I was there) shares. They kept that up for quite a while until the sysadmin got ill; I was there to fix some issues in Access because he could not do it fulltime now. They replaced everything for far more expensive and inflexible erp and control software; it did no longer depend on one person working 247 though.

eig•about 1 hour ago

In case people don't realize, this is satire.

microflash•about 1 hour ago

All this is great and fantastic until you hit Excel’s row limit.

exabrial•about 2 hours ago

laugh all you want, but every modern drug probably owes its existence to Excel hah

dartharva•about 2 hours ago

Ridiculous comparison

Have You Seen the New Excel?

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