In case people don't realize, this is satire.
It's the best kind of satire, because it's based in a bit of truth!
Have You Seen the New Excel?
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Re: Have You Seen the New Excel?
#12i know its inteneded to be satire but it kinda isnt?
well excel changed the world, many more organizations run on excel and the companies that dont run excel in the same field are probably having a harder time. so yes i guess?
also ai and excel are different things?
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#13Most small companies don’t need AI to be more efficient. They need Excel.
I’ve already had two cases where a friend asked me to show them how AI can help them run their company better. In each case it turned out that they needed Excel. Specifically an excel export from one system, some bulk editing, and an excel import into another system.
(I understand the satire in this article but this is a serious post)
Re: Have You Seen the New Excel?
#14Most small companies don’t need AI to be more efficient. They need Excel. I’ve already had two cases where a friend asked me to show them how AI can help them run their company better. In each case it turned out that they needed Excel. Specifically an excel export from one system, some bulk editing, and an excel import into another system. (I understand the satire in this article but this is a serious post)
They used to say this exactly about databases. Small companies usually only need a spreadsheet.
Re: Have You Seen the New Excel?
#15Most small companies don’t need AI to be more efficient. They need Excel. I’ve already had two cases where a friend asked me to show them how AI can help them run their company better. In each case it turned out that they needed Excel. Specifically an excel export from one system, some bulk editing, and an excel import into another system. (I understand the satire in this article but this is a serious post)
> They need Excel.
They should also learn how to use it. Too many times I see people manually sorting rows by cutting and inserting them, when filters are just two clicks away! Filter it, copy the table, save it. Done. 3 hour job done in less than 10 seconds.
Or using pivot tables (i.e. for filtering reports with thousands of lines to find string which occurred the most and sort them by the occurrence).
Or automatically deduplicating rows (remove duplicates - choose columns, click and done.)
And the most outrageous cases of being Excel illiterate are people using calculator on the table and writing results back into Excel. These folks are already too far gone. Nobody can help them.
Re: Have You Seen the New Excel?
#16Most small companies don’t need AI to be more efficient. They need Excel. I’ve already had two cases where a friend asked me to show them how AI can help them run their company better. In each case it turned out that they needed Excel. Specifically an excel export from one system, some bulk editing, and an excel import into another system. (I understand the satire in this article but this is a serious post)
They used to say this exactly about databases. Small companies usually only need a spreadsheet.
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