Money quote:

Excel requires some skill to use (to the point where high-level Excel is a competitive sport), and AI is mostly an exercise in deskilling its users and humanity at large.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      You know it’s easier, efficient and better to have a conversation with an AI rather than read an entire manual that won’t contain the thing you need right?

      You know, all the things it’s advertised to do.

      • rhabarba@feddit.orgOPEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Only to find the “AI” hallucinating functions that won’t work. Or won’t do the thing you were told they do.

        • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 hours ago

          Most times it works. When it doesn’t, it’ll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach. I don’t need to spend hours of my time reading manuals that barely touch on the knowledge I need just to bash keys and hope for the best. Plus it’s conversational so it engages other parts of the brain as a learning tool.

          These fucking people use a rubber duck for the same thing

          • rhabarba@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            When it doesn’t, it’ll still get me 90% of a solution and I can use the manual or other means to finish it. Again a much faster and better approach.

            So you prefer a “90% solution and then read the manual” to “read the manual anyway”?