My mind immediately went here:

Manager: "What's the rate of return according to our financial model?"

Analyst: "Let me vibe the answer for you. Just a sec."

As if Excel weren't bad by itself by failing to keep genomic data untouched...

Interesting feature, but I'm afraid of using it on Excel.

It's so easy to mess up on Excel, there are no crystal clear diffs like on Git. And even if that on Git we make mistakes.

Very often you have data that affects other data etc.

Also, we have DBs and other resources (even MS Access...) because we know how error-prone are Excel sheets.

If using AI adds another layer of potential problems with my Excel sheets, I'm not sure how using it would improve my overall work.

I believe they'd need to change the Excel quite a lot in order to make using AI 'excel'.

Maybe the new Excel is a new Excel-esque application with a new layer of tools to enable it to work properly with AI.

Like something that allows you to validate against a set of values described by prompt etc.

There are so many possibilities now with LLMs and I feel those integrations are very shallow, more of the same thing.

I don't need a Clippy on steroids. I want a new experience.

there goes middle management