Me and the robot

Today in letting the machines talk to the machines: Copilot just helped me build a process that will convert a report from our new payroll system into a GL import file. It took me 90 minutes to build the tool and accompanying procedures. The process itself will require two minutes of work on the part of the end user–a huge time savings compared to doing this conversion manually. Now if I would have already been fluent in Power Query, I could have built it in even less time. The advantage Copilot gave me was to tell me, step by step, how to build it. It allowed me to build what I needed without hours of Power Query training–and it was able to solve problems on the fly in plain language. So I built what needed to be built and learned what I needed to know about Power Query. This is nothing to sniff at. For an accounting department that is already fairly behind the times technologically, this will help us improve processes much more quickly. I’ve already built a few other tools like this…