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Most people I worked with over the years were in need of making data driven decisions while not being huge fans of working with data and numbers. Many of these tasks and calculations can be finally handed over to AI by well defined prompts forcing the the AI to use all the mathematical tooling. While these features exist for years they are just getting reliable since some weeks and I can’t stop using it. Allowing me to get rid of a crazy amount of tedious excel monkey tasks.
The strategy is to abuse the new thinking capabilities by injecting recursive chain-of-thought instructions with specific formulas while providing a rigorous error handling and sanity checks. I link to an example prompt to give you an idea and if there is enough requests I will write a detailed explanation and the specific triggers how to use the full capabilities of o3 thinking. Until then I hope this gives you an inspiration to remove some routine work from your desk.
Disclaimer: the attached script is a slightly modified version of a specific customer scenario. I added some guardrails but really use it as inspiration and don’t rely on this specific output.
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