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Maybe LLMs will enable a new type of work in spreadsheets. Just like in coding we have PR reviews, with an LLM it should be possible to do a spreadsheet review. Ask the LLM to try to understand the intent and point out places where the spreadsheet deviates from the intent. Also ask the LLM to narrate the spreadsheet so it can be understood.

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That first condition "try to understand the intent" is where it could go wrong. Maybe it thinks the spreadsheet aligns with the intent, but it misunderstood the intent.

LLMs are a lossy validation, and while they work sometimes, when they fail they usually do so 'silently'.

Maybe we need some kind of method, framework to develop intent. Most of things that go wrong in knowledge working are down to lack of common understanding of intent.

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