I’m geeky with Excel and use it throughout my workday to develop analytics, models, combine different data sets, reporting, etc. Just startled testing copilot in excel last week, and had it write some formulas for me. Went well, it provided some observations of the data and recommended actions. So I asked it to create a dashboard. It then provided me a picture of what it would look like and asked if I wanted it built…
My takeaways: 1) I can write some formulas faster than describing what I want, but could become an issue of me explaining differently. 2) This will save me time, lots of time, especially on more complex work, and 3) it will allow me to produce some things beyond my skill level. I also know that I will need to test everything until I personally can trust it.
Sounds like similar experiences. I don’t trust it to make decisions, but I trust it to do the manual data gathering. If I had a human assistant, I would double check their work as well, so it just saves time. For instance, when I was at University, it would take me hours to go through books, etc., to find the data that I needed. Now these ‘assistants’ can do the tedious, long work.