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Top comment from the last time this was posted pointed out how the image is cropped on the left. We are most definitely looking at rows 11-14 and there are numbers above that are not being shown.
I just want them to remove the god awful copilot button that showed up in the corner on top of cells in my spreadsheet with no way to move or hide it. It’s not even on the ribbon anymore where I can ignore it. Fuckin’ pricks.
Storytime. I tried to use copilot to get some rather convoluted dataset analyzed in Excel. Not a huge task, but basically I wanted it to count me the occurrences of certain values, grouped by that value. Of course that’s easy with Pivot, and there’s probably also some formula for that, but it wasn’t very urgent, so I figured I’d see what Copilot could do. Now of course I didn’t want to use that =COPILOT() formula, but instead asked Copilot to create me a formula to correctly count how often each value occurs. So it created this multiple lines long formula, which from first glance seemed plausible (though way overcomplicated). I asked it to insert this into cell F13. „Of course“, it said — and then proceeded to do nothing. Confronted with this, it tried again, and failed. After some asking why it didn’t just go that, it told me that this is not possible in Excel in Mac. I’d have to use the web version of Excel. WTF? Why doesn’t the fully featured version do this? Well, of course: Microsoft doesn’t like Apple too much. So I tried copy pasting the formula and failed. Some syntax error cropped up. I asked Copilot about this, and it came back with a typical „oh sorry, my bad, here is the correct formula“ and the same formula again. Of course this failed. And since I didn’t want to debug this stupid thing (the error message of course also didn’t give any indication what exactly could be wrong), I just created a Pivot and got my result in seconds.
Now this is only one of many experiences I had when trying to really use that 365 Copilot for anything useful. Maybe I should write a book about it. And then ask Copilot to write a book about it and put this into the epilogue.
I remember my final task before getting laid off from Coinbase was to use Copilot to write unit tests for a 70k-line Kubernetes deployer written in golang. Without fail, it would regularly give me unit tests checking whether
.onclick()was working for a given function…in a Kubernetes deployer. I tried to report that to management and they told me that I was using it wrong and fired me.Wow. I wish your story was more surprising.
It boggles my mind that people trust Coinbase with their money.
1+2=12
12+3=15
seems legit
Shouldnt it be 123 then
A single digit is a char but two digits are a string and can be transformed into an integer
JavaScript logic
no 1 and 2 are strings 3 is an integer m’kay?
Also, working upward, 3+2=5, “1”+5=“15”.
I wonder which “inspired” path it chose.
Thumbs up the bad and the good, with about 10% thumbs down randomly. Poison their data set.
How is this easier than just typing in sum(a1:a3)??
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Yeah, the “skill barrier”
Bc this way gives profits to AI…
If people stopped trying to make it something it’s not and built it as a proper tool, this is one of the few things AI is good for. It can proccess data quite well, or could. Because of all that’s being shoved in the hallucinations are getting worse, but I’ve been able to use it to proccess data sets with very specific instructions. Saved me hours of tedious work.
But a way to organize and proccess data faster isn’t exciting for investors so
Whenever I’m feeling suicidal, I remind myself that I have never had to use Excel
It doesn’t always work, but it often works
Edit: although, I did have a brief affair with Lotus 123 and Lotus Notes, back in the day
