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[–] [email protected] 110 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Autocomplete suggestion getting "February" wrong is a nice touch

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hackerman_uwu 7 points 7 months ago

Whentember juneteenth

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[–] TropicalDingdong 83 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Do you remuary... --the 21st night of Sepuary?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remember, remember!
The fifth of novuary
The gunpowder treason and plot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Wake me up when Sepuary ends

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Rememuary rememuary, the 5th of Novuary.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think this is the only time excel hasn't decided something was a date.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

OK, but I like this better.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Opisek 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We can finally parse English with regex?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Now that would be the day!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm not defending AI, but I've seen Excel manage worse on its own. Granted, it's almost always my fault for not fully understanding the enigmatic systems that power its logic.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's amazing what you can do with Excel if you know how. It makes it so easy to analyze complex data sets, accidentally summon the Dark Lord, create pivot tables and graphs, etc.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

accidentally summon the Dark Lord

You've tried to use Excel as a database too, huh?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lol no that just summons a few demons. When you write an entire "application" in VBA and use hidden worksheets as the "database", then try to share it with the entire organization via a shared drive, then and only then will the gates of hell open and Satan himself come forth.

[–] indepndnt 9 points 7 months ago

Oh. That explains the earthquakes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

The last application I wrote in VBA/Excel is still running 24/7 on a big screen in the command center of a company that was purchased for several billion dollars.

And yes, there are multiple database sheets. Filled with data scraped from another database. Data that was being written down on paper before I arrived and decided to learn VBA instead of develop permanent hand cramps.

[–] TexasDrunk 6 points 7 months ago

But have you tried using Excel as the back end database for a poorly designed Access front end?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

So…much…Visual Basic….

[–] ilinamorato 14 points 7 months ago

Whoa whoa whoa! The world is already in rough enough shape without you creating pivot tables

[–] Bertuccio 12 points 7 months ago

That's some Stockholm Syndrome talk right there.

[–] GeneralEmergency 5 points 7 months ago

This is an old picture with the AI caption added.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This also highlights the problem of extrapolating from a single data point.

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[–] Nurse_Robot 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think Mayuary is my favorite, it's not often I find an arrangement of letters that look that wrong

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

And the short form of MAY is already the complete name so it doesn't need any completion

[–] umbraroze 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Uh huh. Interesting

(furious scribbling in the scifi worldbuilding notes) "In 2050, the names of the months got inadvertently legally changed when a megacorporation released a new version of their office suite and silently corrupted thousands of government document drafts."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

See the top comment. This is from 5 years ago not actually copilot.

[–] umbraroze 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

When I was taking my introductory courses in computer science over 20 years ago, they told me to not use Excel if you can avoid it, because it's not very, you know, precise. So I'm well aware that this is an ancient joke. Excel will fuck your data up - AI is just another way to do it.

But it is a potential scifi plot point.

However, I will concede that it's probably not a scifi plot point for too long. Worse things have already happened.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Funny post, but it is older than the AI stuff. Source

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Sepuary"

It's Septuary! You uncultured swine!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I paid real money for a wall calendar that had the months of Feburary and Ooctober.

[–] Blaster_M 12 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Wake me up when Sepuary ends

[–] HowManyNimons 10 points 7 months ago

I think we're fine for a few years longer, fellow humans.

[–] timmymac 7 points 7 months ago

Oldy but a goody and not ai related.

[–] Asifall 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] StaySquared 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's kind of funny... everyone using AI right now are just beta testers who aren't getting paid to beta test said AI. Better yet, many people are actually paying subscriptions to be beta testers of said AI. Kind of like buying name brand clothes with their logo on the front and or back.. you're just advertising and not getting paid for it. A bunch of walking billboards lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Have you missed the top comment? This isn't actually copilot. It's from 5 years ago. In other words fake news.

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[–] TrickDacy 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Is this real? Literally never seen anything this bad myself. Granted I don't use Excel or many other ms products. GitHub copilot would literally never be this bad though

[–] GeneralEmergency 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not. It's an old picture with a new caption.

[–] TrickDacy 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you. Op is a lying karma whore

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My favorite thing about GH copilot is when I'm writing just in a text file for notes and it starts writing a recipe for like cookies or something lol.

[–] tourist 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they put autocomplete in the commit message box a few weeks back

they removed it pretty quick

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It at least could have put SEPTember at month 7, OCTOber at month 8, etc. whilst it was fixing things.

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