Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness
theregister.co.ukMicrosoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work.
On Monday, Redmond said that it's adding an OpenAI-powered Agent Mode for Word and Excel that will create documents based on existing material and extract data from spreadsheets for reports and financial analysis, all with a few sentences of prompts.
For Word users, Microsoft is promising "vibe writing," drawing on existing documents to assemble reports and proposals, checking drafts for clarity and style, and suggesting refinements along the way.
The Excel agent is designed to take existing spreadsheets and analyze the data, build reports, and visualize data. Redmond says it and OpenAI can "speak Excel" and produce somewhat accurate results.
According to Redmond's own blog post, Microsoft's Agent Mode for Excel scored a 57.2 percent accuracy ...
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