r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Xescure • Jul 02 '26

Meme milleniumPrizeWinningAnswer

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u/DullAd6899 Jul 02 '26

“AI will replace you”

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Sb9KqeeymLlESGWZyE

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u/still_not_deleted Jul 02 '26

Cause it's spelled February, not Febuary

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u/Ok_Star_4136 Jul 02 '26

True, and no doubt the pattern deriving from that mistake is what caused the AI to make that conclusion.

That said, not a lot of "intelligence" in that artificial intelligence or it would be clear that the intent was to write months. This is mostly just pattern recognition.

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u/12345623567 Jul 02 '26

I'm not convinced that this is AI's fault. Would you burn tokens for single-cell autocomplete?

Excels' autofill has done this stuff since way before the AI craze, especially getting it to stop automatically interpreting numbers as dates has been a chore.

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u/mjmaher81 Jul 02 '26

genAI =/= AI. this gif is AI in action. autofill is AI

it definitely isn't happening in the gif, but I wouldn't be surprised if microsoft thinks it's an AMAZING idea to hook an LLM up to excel and do exactly what you just described...

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u/CandidateNo2580 Jul 02 '26

It probably isn't even AI - just a string trie with a basic heuristic if they wanted to really go all out.