Post #4492250
2026-08-10 21:14 UTC
@paulshryock@phpc.social @jschauma@mstdn.social Y' know? I just spent all afternoon talking to co-pilot about setting up a spreadsheet I'm working on. It helped me with formula options I didn't know about, and helped me get several of them optimized.
You'll claim that's because I don't care about formulas, but I just don't have the entire suite of excel formulas memorized. Before I started doing this sort of work with co-pilot, I would have been editing this report every single day to update all the references. Now it's going to take me a couple of days to set up, and it'll be good for the entire test date range, which is a couple of months.
It's fun to come up with knee-jerk comments, and I totally agree that sometimes people are using AI in stupid ways. Ways. It's kind of a variant of garbage in garbage out. But I'm really, really tired of people trying to claim that everything people do with AI is unnecessary and wrong. I literally have a multi-tab spreadsheet proving it's not.
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@JaxVent@lgbtqia.space 2026-08-10 22:16
@eyrea@mstdn.ca @paulshryock@phpc.social @jschauma@mstdn.social If you built a report that needs the references updated every few days, you built it wrong. Instead of relying on copilot to fix it, you could learn more about formulas and get the satisfaction of seeing the outcome that you want. I work with multiple workbooks with multiple sheets and every one has been built by me, from scratch, sometimes learning new formulas and VBA tricks as I go because the possibilities are vast. If I used copilot I wouldn't get any new knowledge or experience, and no satisfaction.