[intended]

Thank you for putting in clear info about the language, task and results! I’m going to add that you have likely been programming forever.

I am beginning to suspect that the ability to get value out of GenAI is almost entirely dependent on the ability to recognize bad patterns at a glance.

In essence, it’s a tool for power users, not for neophytes.

Good lord, its going to be the excel problem on steroids.

[Arisaka1]

My fear is that this will make the gap between newcomers and veterans so much bigger that the junior market will suffer more than ever before.

However, according to a few job openings in my area, "junior AI powered engineer" is actually a thing that some companies ask. Is it a good idea? I'd say no it's not. Do the managers who do the hiring while reading all the hype care? Definitely not the ones who ask for AI powered juniors.

[mikewarot]

Excel is the worlds most popular declarative programming language.

2 things I'd fix about it, remove default assuming certain things are dates, and adding a way to mark an area of a spreadsheet as a database table, so you can't sort only some of the columns.

[sandbach]

Excel has tables (Insert > Table), which take care of your second point.