The AI moved data between my spreadsheets in under 2 minutes. It would have taken me 4 hours.

His company is pushing staff to use AI. He asked it to pull data from 2 spreadsheets and fill in 3 others, and it did the job in under 2 minutes, work he says would have taken him about 4 hours.

4 hourssaved

How it works

He asks the AI to pull data from 2 spreadsheets
The AI fills in 3 other spreadsheets with it
Done in under 2 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

Work he put at about 4 hours of copying between files was finished in under 2 minutes.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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