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The Conversation: Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted. “Software developers are already very familiar with tools such as GitHub Copilot, a kind of ChatGPT for programmers. It works something like a smart autocomplete tool to increase the productivity of human programmers. But we are now witnessing a more radical revolution, where AI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-conversation-software-is-increasingly-being-built-by-ai-so-its-vital-to-know-if-it-can-be-trusted/

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@Codhisattva @cstross

As long as you remember, as I forgot when posting, to put brackets around the numerator:

=IF(X2<M2,MAX((M2-X2)/M2,0.1),0)

A relative who used to work in the U.K. civil service and did spreadsheets pointed out to me today that xyr form of the formula would instead have been

=IF(X2<M2,MAX(1-X2/M2,0.1),0)

and would have not had the bracket bug.

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