Hey digital adventurers! If you're already an Excel wizard who dreams in spreadsheets and speaks fluent VLOOKUP, this post might not be for you! But for everyone else who has to use Excel now and then but finds themselves staring blankly at those intimidating grids... I've got something that might make your life a whole lot easier.
So I recently saw this LinkedIn post from Kamil Stanuch stating (in Polish) that "To increase Polish GDP by more than 8%, instead of ChatGPT licenses and AI agents, it would probably be enough to start by teaching citizens more than one formula in Excel."
Isn't that funny? But also... kind of true? There's this weird thing where many people absolutely HATE math and by extension, Excel... even though it's literally running multi-billion dollar companies across the globe. Seriously, Excel (or any spreadsheet really) is the silent backbone of global business that nobody wants to talk about!
The One-Hour Excel AI Helper Challenge
JUST for fun, I decided to create a little AI helper for Excel. And when I say "little," I mean it was created in LESS THAN AN HOUR, so please forgive the lack of fancy design or extra features. Sometimes the best solutions come from quick experiments, right? (Like that time I built a QR code generator for $4.25!)
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