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by maccard 332 days ago
I’ve worked at places that sre run on spreadsheets. You’d be amazed at how often they’re wrong IME
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There is a literature on this.

The usual estimate you see is that about 2-5% of spreadsheets used for running a business contain errors.

The entire financial sector, for one thing
It takes my boss seven hours to create that spreadsheet, and another eight to render a graph.
Exciting stuff