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0 pointsaltmanaltman3mo ago0 comments

so basically what you're saying is that: it doesn't do the math, it tells the math-doing-thing what math to do. Basically, instead of humans using Excel, imagine AI using Excel?

Yet I don't understand the aha moment here? It might save analyst time but aren't there already enough automation that you don't really need to tell the AI to tell the math-doing-thing to do the math because the math-doing-thing is already optimized for most general functions? What are we gaining from adding the non-deterministic process here when the real non-deterministic process is still the human being prompting what to do?

Seems like a solution to a non-problem from my pov.

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nl3mo ago

Setting up spreadsheets is just programming in an unconventional environment.

And it has all the requirement translation requirements of programming

altmanaltmanOP3mo ago

Sure in the sense that you're setting up a program that has inputs and outputs etc. But then all math is programming. All language is too, even speaking can be considered programming if you're stretching the definition enough. But I will disagree that setting up spreadsheets = basically software engineering.

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nl3mo ago

Setting up spreadsheets is just programming in an unconventional environment.

And it has all the requirement translation requirements of programming

altmanaltmanOP3mo ago

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