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Arguably excel and legal are much worse than code because catching the mistakes can be much harder.

Case in point, JPMorgan London Whale incident, $6 billion loss caused by an excel error...

Yes... I mean organisations have to adapt to this new working scheme. First they need new processes (maybe borrowed from SW development) that enables them to triage work products on a risk/reward scale. For example my wife works on medical device tenders. It is obligatory to translate every frikkin Word document to our native language which in the end noone will read. Do we use LLMs to do the translation? Hell yeah. For a critical legal document? Eeee. Also I think enablers like speical harnesses shall be developed/improved by keeping these folks in mind. For example to build hooks into the harness that forces the LLM to test/review/sample its output. So yes it's a complex topic, but my point was rather that the inherent capabilities of medium-large-ish open LLMs are sufficient for let's say 70-80% of such office work, and it's a huge market.

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