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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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    9 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”?

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      7 hours ago

      Yes. Why would I need to read something that is 99% information that is not important to me or my problem.

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        7 hours ago

        Because you’ll learn the solution for the other problems you’ll have some day on the way.

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          5 hours ago

          So I’ll waste my time when I could instead get right to the heart of my problem. Have a conversation and learn more about that thing I’m implementing vs blindly skimming through manuals that have nothing to do with my problem in hopes that I’ll retain that information on 2 years when i come across the other issue. Or I could just chatgpt that problem as well