Comment by ebiester
1 day ago
You underestimate the task by multiple orders of magnitude. It would be a significant effort even to build it on libreoffice.
1 day ago
You underestimate the task by multiple orders of magnitude. It would be a significant effort even to build it on libreoffice.
Within 5 years (maybe less) a frontier LLM will be capable of completely cloning Excel based on Microsoft's product documentation. And I mean starting from scratch, not using the messy Libreoffice code base.
> And I mean starting from scratch, not using the messy Libreoffice code base.
Given the libreoffice codebase is in its dataset, is that really from scratch?
I guess that means none of what a professional software engineer does is from scratch either, given that they're also trained on existing code.
Kind of hard to write code when you haven't seen a lot of it.
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