Re:A Quote from Belligerentbarbies
by jwsteigerwalt on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:58AM
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Many fears of “AI mucking it up” could be mitigated with an ability to connect a workbook to a git repository. Not for data, but for VBA, cell formulas, and cell metadata. When you can encapsulate the changes a contributor (in this case co-pilot) makes into a commit, you can more easily understand what changes it/they made.
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Re:A Quote from Belligerentbarbies
by smoothbran on Thursday November 06, 2025 @10:40PM
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Even if "teaching the rest of the workforce how to use Git" wasn't a massive obstacle, many (most?) corporate workflows involve editing files that weren't designed to be human-readable. There are a couple of approaches out there for comparing diffs to excel spreadsheets specifically, but it's not exactly pleasant.
Re:A Quote from Belligerentbarbies
by jwsteigerwalt on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:53AM
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Considering that Microsoft perfected change control in the legal industry (ms word’s track changes), something can be done to add a degree of change control to spreadsheets.