I think many software engineers overlook how many companies have huge (billion dollar) processes run through Excel.
It's much less about 'greenfield' new excel sheets and much more about fixing/improving existing ones. If it works as well as Claude Code works for code, then it will get pretty crazy adoption I suspect (unless Microsoft beats them to it).
So they can fire the two dudes that take care of it, lose 15 years of in house knowledge to save 200k a year and cry in a few months when their magic tool shits the bed ?
Massive win indeed
I think you're making an argument for LLMs, not against.
You're one of the people who saw nothing wrong with moving all our industries to asia right ? "It's cheaper so it's obviously better", if you don't think about any of the externalities and long term consequences sure...
Until Microsoft does its anti-competitive thing and find a way to break this in the file format, because this is exactly what copilot in excel does.
That said, Copilot in Excel is pretty much hot garbage still so anything will be better than that.