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This may be really dangerous. Many will see enablement here and speeding up dull processes, I see untrained users getting results via a GPT that can spout out h
by poisonborz 3y ago
This may be really dangerous. Many will see enablement here and speeding up dull processes, I see untrained users getting results via a GPT that can spout out hallucination and false answers any time, and the user will simply believe it as he won't/can't do validation. It's one thing developers using it to create easy to review code snippets, another to generate complex queries in office apps to operate on raw data. I know, the same user would have copy pasted a formula before without checking, but using GPT will open up the floodgates for such issues.
- mhh__ 3y agoGood excel (such a thing does exist) should almost never refer to a cell by its coordinate rather than using either a named range or better still a table, this probably encourages not doing that.
- cm2187 3y agoNamed ranges are evil except in a limited number of cases (referring to a cell from VBA). If you duplicate a tab or move it to another workbook and you have named ranges, hell starts there.
- mhh__ 3y agoTrue of variables in most languages, are they evil too?
- cm2187 3y agoIn the languages where all variables are global variables, they are.
- hannofcart 3y agoAlso, I find that named ranges seem to slow down the Excel file when the number of rows get a bit large (100k or so)
- qsort 3y agoSounds like job security. Loving it.
- isoprophlex 3y agoYeah. Lots of huffing and puffing when python support in excel was unveiled, how dare those dumb business people write python code?! I think it's great for job security. Whatever happens to the economy, there will be spreadsheets full of shit to be repaired until deep into the 2030s
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