Paul Barnhurst says claims about Claude replacing Excel are overblown. A LinkedIn poll found 80% of workers use Claude for only 0-20% of their tasks, not the 90-95% often claimed. Switching to AI-generated code creates validation problems and would take a decade to replace Excel entirely.
90% of financial analysis is now done by Claude. So I ran a poll asking LinkedIn. 80% said 0 to 20% of their work is in Claude, which probably means society is probably closer to 90, 95% of the general population. And then the other one was, you know, Excel is dead. We should all code our models using Claude code and never use basically Excel again. And it's like, okay, first of all, Claude code. So you're now asking me to use a language I don't know. How do I validate that model? How do I have true confidence? That's a 10-year journey, if not longer. So Excel isn't going anywhere till we make that switch.
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