Luis L
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prediction re the end of spreadsheets
AI code gen means that anything that is currently modeled as a spreadsheet is better modeled in code. You get all the advantages of software - libraries, open source, AI, all the complexity and expressiveness.
think about what spreadsheets actually are: they're business logic that's trapped in a grid. Pricing models, financial forecasts, inventory trackers, marketing attribution - these are all fundamentally *programs* that we've been writing in the worst possible IDE. No version control, no testing, no modularity. Just a fragile web of cell references that breaks when someone inserts a row.
The only reason spreadsheets won is that the barrier to writing real software was too high. A finance analyst could learn =VLOOKUP in an afternoon but couldn't learn Python in a month. AI code gen flips that equation completely. Now the same analyst describes what they want in plain English, and gets a real application - with a database, a UI, error handling, the works. The marginal effort to go from "spreadsheet" to "software" just collapsed to near zero.
this is a massive unlock. There are ~1 billion spreadsheet users worldwide. Most of them are building janky software without realizing it. When even 10% of those use cases migrate to actual code, you get an explosion of new micro-applications that look nothing like traditional software. Internal tools that used to live in a shared Google Sheet now become real products. The "shadow IT" spreadsheet that runs half the company's operations finally gets proper infrastructure.
The interesting second-order effect: the spreadsheet was the great equalizer that let non-technical people build things. AI code gen is the *next* great equalizer, but the ceiling is 100x higher. We're about to see what happens when a billion knowledge workers can build real software.
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@RBLZ_Vejrgang it must be rough not having the opportunity to beat @PHzin 🤣😭 -- he just cooked you last year
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Flamengo deve R$ 270 milhões a jogadores contratados e ainda não pagos.
O caso mais absurdo é o de Luiz Araújo, contratado em junho/23 e até o momento não pago.
São R$ 36,6 milhões que ainda não foram quitados juntos a MLS.
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Anyone have a <1 hour edit of the highlights of the @realDonaldTrump conversation?
That’s what most people will be looking for tomorrow.
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Thanks for all the comments. I started to work on something on Mach 6th and changed it several times. Last night I literally burned my brain on how to crack it and boom it happened. Something good is coming very soon #FC24
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🟥 Where are my Tactics? In the bloody bin. Since this patch I can't make anything new to work the way I want. I have no clue what's happening but any instructions which tries to simulate football isn't working properly. I'm frustrated but it'll come. Bare with me #fc24
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🟥 Where are my Tactics?
In the bloody bin. Since this patch I can't make anything new to work the way I want. I have no clue what's happening but any instructions which tries to simulate football isn't working properly. I'm frustrated but it'll come. Bare with me #fc24
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