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I would argue using Claude in replacing a spreadsheet is potentially more of a tech debt than the spreadsheet itself. Now if you would use Claude to build a point application that performs the same standard analysis it might be better, but only marginally so.

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...an with Claude/LLMs you still cant be sure if there is some where a hallucinated mixup in some numbers, yielding wrong results:

If I select whatever datarange in Excel, I know I can rely on the numerical output.

Though, Claude became much better with this

Their only complaint with Claude has been hallucinations when using it for things like remembering business rules, but that's an easy fix since it has no Access to them and the company is large enough to be different from other companies which causes the hallucinations

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