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Agree with this. I had to teach Excel to apprentices when they joined - just because they are digital natives, doesn’t mean they can actually use business tool

• CalRobert 3y ago
  For what it's worth, I have spent much of the last several years undoing someone's untested pile of garbage in Excel and making clean, tested, code with reproducible results in DBT.....
• aleph_minus_one 3y ago
  > just because they are digital natives, doesn’t mean they can actually use business tools. As I explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39789906 "digital natives" refers to the fact that this is the first generation for which (rather consistently available) internet was something that they grew up with from very early childhood on, i.e. they "never saw the 'old world without consistently available internet' in their life". So, quite by definition, it does not imply that digitial natives can use common business tools.