accuracy rate of 57.2 percent
woaw a coin flip weighted in your favor every 10 flips or so
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What if =SUM(A1:A4) was more like gambling than addition
=SUM(A1:A4)
Well, I've parsed a billion spreadsheets, and usually it's like 12.3 or something
Starts playing =SUM(41)
=SUM(BODY(1,TOLD(ME)))
Excel and other spreadsheet software are probably the most important pieces of software in the world, responsible for managing the commanding heights of the world economy. They're all getting AI integration - even WPS office, the domestic Chinese equivalent. And the kind of people who make a lot of spreadsheets are absolutely going to use the fuck out of the AI. So this will have... consequences.
They're all getting AI integration
LibreOffice is not.
Maybe this is how capitalism finally crumbles to its faults
Can't wait for accountants everywhere to be hallucinating a few missing cells here and there.
Why would you deliberately ship a feature that has a 57% accuracy rate? Are the engineers desperate to appease Ed Zitron's Business Idiots or are have they awakened to the realization that most people with computers don't do productive labor, and anyone who embraces these features probably had a worse-than-57% accuracy rate to begin with?
Gotta pump those usage numbers up. Who cares about how useful it actually is?
The Cult of the Next Quarter has finally succeeded in summoning its deity
You also gotta imagine that they tailored the implementation to succeed in known benchmarks and they still got 57%
Evidently, the benchmarking is based on a set of 912 user questions covering a range of scenarios. I have to assume that a decent chunk of these are covering situations where the original spreadsheet was set up poorly or excel isn't the ideal platform for the desired output. Given that, I wonder if the accuracy metrics even mean anything or if it's just a measurement of how well the software pounds square pegs into round holes.
critical support to microsoft in their efforts to accidentally sabotage businesses around the world with ai slop
Basically large scale industrial sabotage lmao
There have been funny screenshots of excel floating around, hopefully they will bankrupt couple of businesses 
Hey so I tried out this whole 'vibe accounting' thing and now I'm getting a lot of threatening letters in the mail. What gives?
"Vibe accounting" just sounds to me like a money laundering scheme lmao
Every small business is just vibe accounting
That article reads like satire to me, but I don't think it's supposed to be satire.
Like, the term "vibe coding" is derogatory, right? I certainly thought it was. But the article is using the phrase "vibe coding" as though it's a positive descriptor of a good thing. I don't think I've seen that anywhere else.
Am I wrong? I must be. There must be large numbers of people who use the phrase "vibe coding" and don't mean it to be derogatory. I simply can't fathom that, honestly.
maybe it was coined as derogatory but it has been a while since media takes it seriously and many corpos even have "vive coding interviews" or something similar
I look forward to the carnage reports ig. Let's see this bad boy make datasets unusable because it stealthily reformatted something while doing a simple operation.
Randomly decides to flip the sign in a single cell causing an airplane to crash 4 years later
What if that one annoying coworker who copies and pastes fucked up versions of formulas from your report drafts was a computer program
Im getting closer and closer to advocating for a full departure from windows at my job. I might have the clout to pull it off.