> What is with the negativity in these comments?

Some people - normal people - understand the difference between the holistic experience of a mathematically informed opinion and an actual model.

It's just that normal people always wanted the holistic experience of an answer. Hardly anyone wants a right answer. They have an answer in their heads, and they want a defensible journey to that answer. That is the purpose of Excel in 95% of places it is used.

Lately people have been calling this "syncophancy." This was always the problem. Sycophancy is the product.

Claude Excel is leaning deeply into this garbage.

It seems like to me the answer is moreso "People on HN are so far removed from the real use cases for this kind of automation they simply have no idea what they're talking about".

This is so correct it hurts