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microflash • yesterday at 7:30 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

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 • yesterday at 7:45 PM

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.

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_kb • yesterday at 10:29 PM

The obvious end state here is an ExceLLM.

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