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washadjeffmad 16 hours ago

Same. I interface with a team who refuses to conduct business in anything other than Excel, and because of dated corporate mindshare, their management sees them more as wizards instead of the odd ones out.

"They're on top of it! They always email me the new file when they make changes and approve my access requests quickly."

There are limits to my stubbornness, and my first use of LLMs for coding assistance was to ask for help figuring out how to Excel, after a mere three decades of avoidance.

After engaging and learning more about their challenges, it turned out one of their "data feeds" was actually them manually copy/pasting into a web form with a broken batch import that they'd give up on submitting project requests for, which I quietly fixed so they got to retain their turnaround while they planned some other changes.

Ultimately nothing grand, but I would never have bothered if I'd had to wade through the usual sort of learning resources available or ask another person. Being able to transfer and translate higher level literacy, though, is right up my alley.