"You know who's not hallucinating?

Brenda"

I don't know about that. There could be lots of interesting ways Brenda can (be convinced to) hallucinate.

I agree - having watched many people use Excel over the years, I'd say people often overestimate their skills. I see three categories of Excel users. First there are the people that are intimidated by it and stay away from any task involving Excel. Second are the people that know a little bit (a few basic formulas) and overestimate their skills because they only compare themselves to the first group. And the third group are the actual power users but know to keep that quiet because otherwise they become the "excel person" and have to fix every sheet that has issues.

I don't know if AI is going to make any of the above better or worse. I expect the only group to really use it will be that second group.

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b3lvedere 20 hours ago | parent [-]

I have seen lots and lots of different uses for Excel in my line of work:

- password database - script to automatically rename jpeg files - game - grocery lists - Book keeping (and try and not get caught for fraud several years, because the monthly spending limit is $5000 and $4999 a month is below that...) - embed/collect lots of Word documents - coloring book - Minecraft processes - Resume database - ID scans

	▲	recursive 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've seen it used for laser testing. Not tracking test results. Testing lasers.