As the things stand, we used to have thousands of Excels with obscure macros heavy-lifting businesses. Now we have thousands of Claude artifacts doing the same. Nothing has changed, much less improved.

Wherever I've seen a pull back, it is all because of compliance or security. And that too not because of the purity of heart; but because some checkbox couldn't be ticked due to AI.

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anonymous908213 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Excel macros are deterministic, don't leak BI and PII, aren't malware, and don't cost an extra engineer's salary per engineer. Comparing them to Claude is quite a disservice.

	▲	Ekaros 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not to forget versioned inside the document. The same spreadsheet produces same answers if it is not edited. Same can't be said from programs that can be recreated over and over again.
	▲	Karliss 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's funny you mentioned excel macros not being malware. Various scripting systems provided by excel has been a long standing malware vector.

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_kb 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The obvious end state here is an ExceLLM.

https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/