The Nail Gun Problem

I read an article recently claiming that AI will replace spreadsheets . The argument goes something like this: why wrestle with pivot tables and VLOOKUP when you can just ask AI to generate code that does the same thing, but better? It sounds reasonable. It sounds like progress. And it fundamentally misunderstands what kind of leap we’re talking about. &#xA; A Bounded Jump &#xA; Going from a…