IT·Science Talk

Unpopular opinion: Excel runs more of the world than any AI ever will

Accountant, 20 years. Every company I've worked with, whatever software they bought, ultimately runs on a spreadsheet someone built in 2011 that nobody dares to touch.

Lots of talk about AI agents doing everything. Meanwhile the payroll at one firm I audited depended on a macro written by a man named Dave who retired years ago. Dave is the real infrastructure.