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Posted by meetpateltech 3 days ago

Claude for Excel(www.claude.com)
672 points | 456 commentspage 6
burkaman 3 days ago|
I'm excited to see what national disasters will be caused by auto-generated Excel sheets that nobody on the planet understands. A few selections from past HN threads to prime your imagination:

Thousands of unreported COVID cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689247

Thousands of errors in genetics research papers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41540950

Wrong winner announced in national election: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197280

Countries across the world implement counter-productive economic austerity programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt#Metho...

HPsquared 3 days ago||
Especially combined with the dynamic array formulas that have recently been added (LET, LAMBDA etc). You can have much more going on within each cell now. Think whole temporary data structures. The "evaluate formula" dialog doesn't quite cut it anymore for debugging.
malthaus 3 days ago||
from my experience in the corporate world, i'd trust an excel generated / checked by an LLM more than i would one that has been organically grown over years in a big corporation where nobody ever checks or even can check anything because its one big growing pile of technical debt people just accept as working
humanfromearth9 3 days ago||
This could be invaluable for reverse engineering complex workbooks with multiple data sources and hundreds or thousands of formulas.
pumnikol 3 days ago|
If it has a concept of data sources and can digest them, sure. Anecdotally, most issues with Excel at my job are caused by data sources being renamed, moved or reformatted, by broken logins, or by insufficient access rights.
user3939382 2 days ago||
Anthropic knows almost nothing about their own products and you guys know even less.
patife 3 days ago||
Fodasse a Rows é pelo menos 3x melhor
supermalvo 3 days ago|
100%
whalesalad 3 days ago||
I just want Claude inside of Metabase.
adamfeldman 3 days ago|
https://www.metabase.com/features/metabot-ai
ed_elliott_asc 3 days ago||
I use excel but not for financial modelling, I’ll use it
throawayonthe 3 days ago||
R.I.P. global economy
matthewfelgate 1 day ago||
I tried https://sanand0.github.io/llmexcel/#/ yesterday but it's very slow.

Not sure if this Claud for Excel can do the same thing and run =claude() inside Excel cells?

bugsense 2 days ago|
That’s it. 1T EV added.
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