AI isn't going anywhere. It's already baked into your software, your phone, your toaster...and soon, into you.

You can scream about "AI slop" all you want, but the tide's not stopping.

The smart move is to start using it now to free up your time, working more efficiently, and get more done.

Because like it or not, you'll be competing against people who already are.

Personally, as a now retired accountant, and extremely experienced with, starting from BASICA, QUICKBASIC PDS, Visual Studio, and VBA for Excel, I learned years ago to automate time consuming, some tedious, repetitive tasks and even highly complex numbers and decisions making what might take a whole day, be done in minutes.

I know how AI is going to change the world. I can see it already.

Get with the program (no pun intended)

The 'into you" part was sardonic.

You have to have a sense of humor.

Sorry.

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"Scripts ain't AI"

I never said BASIC or VBA is AI. And VBA isn't scripts. It is closer to full a fledge programming language.

One particular program I created condensed what took 2 days into 30 minutes at the most...usually about 10 once you knew how to use it.

Over the years I wrote multiple Visual Basic or VBA programs that greatly simplified mine or something else's job.

That is the point.

Now people will have AI at their disposal.

Instead of whining about it, learn to use it.

Legal,

VBA has been around for decades. Microsoft has had no choice but to continue supporting it. It integrates with Office products easily.

It's not hard to learn and as you acquire more programming skills, the more you can utilize it.

Millions of companies continue to rely on legacy VBA macros for finance, logistics, reporting, and engineering.

Microsoft has tried to ease people off of it, but VBA is too entrenched to kill off.