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Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI! (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_dJhsLqyg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250826-excel-copilot-make-up-spreadsheet-numbers-with-ai - podcast

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[–] JFranek@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

When I read Excel Copilot, I thought "they finally added a chatbot that lets you generate a spreadsheet/range/table processing a datasource. Like "copilot, create a table that aggregates prices by category from table xyz".

To which I was like "Ok, maybe that could be useful to some of the many non-technical excel users." I wasn't prepared for whatever this is.

I mean with vibe-coding/excelling? you eventually get something that can run deterministically.

Are we... are we gonna start seeing terminally AI-pilled bozos implementing gacha mechanics in data pipelines?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it's the most aggressively useless way to add copilot to excel

"I love it!!"

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