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This reminds me of Bill Gates' comment about secretaries writing VBA. Thankfully, that didn't happen. My friend rides herd on all the python code written at Big

This reminds me of Bill Gates' comment about secretaries writing VBA. Thankfully, that didn't happen. My friend rides herd on all the python code written at BigBank. He said they now have over 1MM python scripts, "Most of them written by people who had no business writing code in the first place." Python certainly lowers the barrier to writing code, but I seriously doubt many Excel power users will jump on the Python bandwagon. If you are not up to speed with the latest BI tools for Excel, you are missing out. Power Pivot is brilliant and dynamic ranges are the cat's meow. With LAMBDA there is no need to try cramming Python into Excel. Don't underestimate how much large corporations prefer to use products written by professionals instead of relying on a menagerie of ad hoc packages cooked up by well-meaning amateurs.

etothepii 6y ago
This is a great point but companies are using tools built by amateurs and just don't know it. I think of a lot of business users as the fine artisans you might have come and paint a fresco at the Sistine wall. Sure, they might be the best painter in the world, but if they are painting on a poorly constructed building there will be little-to-no long term sustainable value.