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vibe working

2025-09-29 17:56:08.499976+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Some headlines don't need a lot of additional exposition: Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

The good news is that when this whole economy collapses and we enter a decade of Even Greater Depression, it'll be hard to point the finger at any one of the AI bubble, Trump, or the housing situation, because it's all so fucked up.

Addendum: Excel Blog: How we designed an intelligent spreadsheet agent by combining advanced reasoning with Excel’s dynamic calculation engine

We measure Agent Mode on both our internal evaluation sets and the public SpreadsheetBench benchmark. Our results on SpreadsheetBench place Agent Mode at the leading edge of current systems, accurately completing 57.2% of the benchmark’s tasks.

Frank Skornia @fskornia@glammr.us observed:

I work in a library, so hardly work that will injure or kill someone and even here if I was constantly handing in stuff that was 57.2 percent accurate they would question my suitability for the job.

What I think this whole "AI" thing is showing is quite clearly how accuracy doesn't actually matter to anyone who's finding AI useful.

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