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“We’re going to go pretty aggressively and try and collapse it all”

For quite a while I assumed they were talking about the biosphere...

@aral Yeah I’m pretty skeptical of that. If you’re a number-cruncher you’re going to want to know exactly what formulae are being applied where and not just trust an LLM to spit out the right answer. Best case I think it could be useful to ask it to create a boilerplate Excel file containing what it thinks are the right calculations in the right fields, but you’re still going to want to audit every cell to be sure that it’s doing what you think it’s doing.

@aral if they get rid of excel they’ll kill business. All enterprise software starts as a spreadsheet on a network drive. What would MBAs do without it?

@aral This is all extremely wishful thinking on their part — and shows the naked hate they have for labour. Luckily these people don't know shit about shit. Satya is the kind of guy who has AI summarise his podcasts for him (for real). And for what it's worth: AI barely works in the best of cases, and agents...lmfao.

@aral "Who even needs humans, amirite?" The death-drive for maximal efficiency while completely disregarding all societal, ethical, environmental impacts...

@aral Some folks may be interested to check out The Nerd Reich’s work and what has been labelled TESCREAL

@aral the logical conclusion to how everything microsoft turned to shit under nadella. It’s still successful beyond belief. He basically turned microsoft from market leading provider for consumers and business into a malaria infection

@aral They will take my spreadsheets from my cold dead hands.

Vive le pivot table! Vive la resistance!

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