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Seems like a reasonably-cromulent use-case -- or at least, it fits in with my own uses of LLMs.

I suck at spreadsheets. I know they can do both useful and amazing things, but my daily life does not revolve around spreadsheets and I simply do not understand most of the syntax and operations required to make even fairly basic things work. It requires a lot of time and effort for me to get simple things done with a spreadsheet on the rare occasion that I need to manipulate one.

There are things in life that I am very good at; spreadsheets are simply not amongst them.

But do I know what I want, and I generally even have a ballpark idea of what the results should look like, and how to calculate it by hand [horror]. I just don't always know how to articulate it in a way that LibreOffice or Google Sheets or whatever can understand.

LLMs have helped to bridge that gap for me, but it's a pain in the ass: I have to be very careful with the context that I give the LLM (because garbage in is garbage out).

But in the demo, the LLM has the context already. This skips a ton of preamble setup steps to get the LLM ready to provide potentially-useful work, and moves closer to just making a request and getting the desired output.

Having one unified interface saves even more steps.

(And no, this isn't for everyone.)



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