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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.

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

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      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

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        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”?