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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Sometimes I wonder if the AI push is about firing people for being stupid about trusting any of its output.
Not to mention, this doesn’t feel like actual coverage but rather a bit of the author fellating this new development.
You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt. A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe working” chatbot.
“Today we’re bringing vibe working to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Agent Mode in Office apps and Office Agent in Copilot chat,” says Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Office Product Group. “In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development, the latest reasoning models in Copilot unlock agentic productivity for Office artifacts.”
Agent Model in Excel and Word is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience that Microsoft has added to its Office apps. It’s designed to make the complex parts of Excel more accessible to users that aren’t experts. “It’s not just simple assistive short answers, but board-ready presentations or documents,” Chauhan says. “It’s work, quite frankly, that a first-year consultant would do, delivered in minutes.”
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In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development
So, that is to say, they expect it to have no impact on serious work whatsoever?
It will cause untold and difficult to diagnose errors, netting real professional working with these tools to make good money, but also give everyone a giant headache.
Microsoft Clippy says “Hello. You appear to be making an invoice. I can help!” Only we’re not making an invoice, and Clippy cannot help.
I can count the number of times that I have looked in an Excel sheet and thought, “I wish this was subtly wrong due to subtle changes made by a hallucination engine.” It is zero.
Unfortunately the world has become so divorced from reality it no longer matters whether something is true. It only matters whether you can convince someone it looks or feels true. Management wants subtle changes made by a hallucination engine because it doesn’t matter if they fail, they still get their golden parachute and move on to another company they get to ruin 🤷♀️
I can count the number of times that I have looked in an Excel sheet and thought, “I wish this was subtly wrong due to subtle changes made by a hallucination engine.” It is zero.
lol. This is beautiful.
