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Meanwhile, > 88% of the Excel spreadsheets have errors https://www.cassotis.com/insights/88-of-the-excel-spreadsheets-have-errors https://www.cassotis.com/ins

Meanwhile, > 88% of the Excel spreadsheets have errors https://www.cassotis.com/insights/88-of-the-excel-spreadsheets-have-errors https://www.cassotis.com/insights/88-of-the-excel-spreadshee... How many companies mismanaged their finances because they had an enthusiastic spreadsheet user in charge? From that article, we know a country did.

Terr_ 1y ago
It's a kind of macabre progress that national policy missteps have advanced to "ChatGPT, generate a table of tariffs for the US to impose on other places." https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tariffs-chatgpt-2055203 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tariffs-chatgpt-205520...
- delfinom 1y ago
  Idiocracy was a pretty good take on the future of civilization
saulpw 1y ago
I agree that all of this is madness, but to be fair, 100% of computer programs have bugs, so I don't think this is any more damning than systematizing all of humanity's processes with computers.
- yencabulator 1y ago
  It's about the likelihood and probability distribution of the kinds of bugs. An Excel sheet made by NASA as part of their official space operations, to that rigor will probably have 0 problems ever. But compared to typical software, just consider this: Excel sheets do not have a culture of any kind of testing. If the output looks plausible, move on. Garbage in, garbage processing, garbage out. AI slop has a similar but not exactly the same problem: It's highly, highly likely a human "reviewing" the generated code will just nod their head and not think critically/independently, just accepting all things that are superficially plausible. That may be fine for your webdev CRUD but I sure hope those people are never given credentials that can access anything critical.