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> I think many software engineers overlook how many companies have huge (billion dollar) processes run through Excel.

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

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You think it's better for the company to have "two dudes" that are completely indispensable and whose work will be completely useless if they die / leave?

I think you're making an argument for LLMs, not against.

These two dudes can train the next generation, you know, like we've been doing since humans exist... instead of relying on some centralised point of failure somewhere thousands of km away which might or might not break your company whenever they decide to update something.

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...

Weird ad hom. You’re one of those people who kicks dogs, right?

Management have been executing this genius plan for decades without Ai.

If the company is half baked, those "two dudes" will become indispensable beyond belief. They are the ones that understand how Excel works far deeper, and paired with Claude for Excel they become far far more valuable.

At my org it more that these AI tools finally allow the employees to get through things at all. The deadlines are getting met for the first time, maybe ever. We can at last get to the projects that will make the company money instead of chasing ghosts from 2021. The burn down charts are warm now.

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