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maccard on July 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

I’ve worked at places that sre run on spreadsheets. You’d be amazed at how often they’re wrong IME

ants_everywhere on July 17, 2025 | [–]

There is a literature on this.

The usual estimate you see is that about 2-5% of spreadsheets used for running a business contain errors.

davedx on July 18, 2025 | | [–]

The entire financial sector, for one thing

pyman on July 17, 2025 | | [–]

It takes my boss seven hours to create that spreadsheet, and another eight to render a graph.

eboynyc32 on July 17, 2025 | [–]

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