<story><title>SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>&amp;gt; If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you&lt;p&gt;That &amp;quot;satisfaction&amp;quot; vanished pretty damn quickly, once I realised that I have often more work correcting the stuff so generated than I would have had writing it myself in the first place.&lt;p&gt;LLMs in programming absolutely have their uses, Lots of them actually, and I don&amp;#x27;t wanna miss them. But they are not &amp;quot;thinking ahead&amp;quot; of the code I write, not by a long shot.</text></item><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>At Databricks summit there was a nice presentation [0] by the CEO of V7 labs who showed a demo of their LLM + Spreadsheet product.&lt;p&gt;The kneejerk reaction of “ugh, LLM and spreadsheet?!” is understandable, but I encourage you to watch that demo. It makes clear some obvious potentials of LLMs in spreadsheets. They can basically be an advanced autofill. If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you. This should be achievable in spreadsheets as well.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;amp;t=1251&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;amp;t=1251&lt;/a&gt; (queued to demo at 20:51)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>I really don’t know what the detractors of Copilot are writing, the next StuxNet? Whether I’m doing stupid EDA or writing some fairly original frameworks Copilot has always been useful to me writing both boilerplate code as well as completing more esoteric logic. There’s definitely a slight modification I have made in how I type (making variable names obvious, stopping at the right moment knowing copilot will complete the next etc) but if anything it has made me a cleaner programmer who writes 50% less characters at the minimum.</text></comment>
<story><title>SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09025</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usrbinbash</author><text>&amp;gt; If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you&lt;p&gt;That &amp;quot;satisfaction&amp;quot; vanished pretty damn quickly, once I realised that I have often more work correcting the stuff so generated than I would have had writing it myself in the first place.&lt;p&gt;LLMs in programming absolutely have their uses, Lots of them actually, and I don&amp;#x27;t wanna miss them. But they are not &amp;quot;thinking ahead&amp;quot; of the code I write, not by a long shot.</text></item><item><author>chatmasta</author><text>At Databricks summit there was a nice presentation [0] by the CEO of V7 labs who showed a demo of their LLM + Spreadsheet product.&lt;p&gt;The kneejerk reaction of “ugh, LLM and spreadsheet?!” is understandable, but I encourage you to watch that demo. It makes clear some obvious potentials of LLMs in spreadsheets. They can basically be an advanced autofill. If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you. This should be achievable in spreadsheets as well.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;amp;t=1251&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=0SVilfbn-HY&amp;amp;t=1251&lt;/a&gt; (queued to demo at 20:51)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nunodonato</author><text>They are with me. And with many other people. 
Perhaps it&amp;#x27;s the quality of your code that is preventing better completions.(Or the lang you use?)&lt;p&gt;There are a few things that really help the AI to understand what you want to do, otherwise it might struggle and come up with not so good code.&lt;p&gt;Not to say it gets it right everytime, but definitely often enough for me not to even consider turning it off. The time save has been tremendous.</text></comment>