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by bartread 75 days ago
> in a short while able to use coding agents will be the new able to use Excel.

Yeah, but there’s “able to use Excel”, and then there’s “able to use Excel.”

There is a vast skill gap between those with basic Excel, those who are proficient, and those who have mastered it.

As in intermittent user of Excel I fall somewhere in the middle, although I’m probably a master of knowing how to find out how to do what I need with Excel.

The same will be true for agentic development (which is more than just coding).