The Financial Times draws some parallels to a time, nearly half a century ago:

There is one very clear parallel between the digital spreadsheet and generative AI: both are computer apps that collapse time. A task that might have taken hours or days can suddenly be completed in seconds. So accept for a moment the premise that the digital spreadsheet has something to teach us about generative AI. What lessons should we absorb?

One is that we need more accountants than we did before – possibly because of all these spreadsheets everywhere…

Read the article here.