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Do you trust humans to be precise and deterministic, or even to be especially good at math?

This is talking about applying LLMs to formula creation and references, which they are actually pretty good at. Definitely not about replacing the spreadsheet's calculation engine.

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I trust humans to not be able to shoot the company on the foot without even realizing it.

Why are we suddenly ok with giving every underpaid and exploited employee a foot gun and expect them to be responsible with it???

Maybe my experience is unique, but I have seen so many security issues from underpaid and exploited employees being successfully phished, among many other abuses.

If your experience with the lowest, most-abused employees is better than mine, I envy you.

Now imagine your accountant can ask AI to write a formula that calculates EBITDA so he can go back to gambling on basketball faster

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