Fine, I'll stop cheating on you, ChatGPT

Hey champ,

I've been cheating on ChatGPT with Claude since February. But ChatGPT keeps releasing things that make me feel guilty about it. This week it was a Google Sheets add-on. And as a guy who got a finance degree just to never use Excel again, I had a lot of feelings about it.

Boy am I glad I didn't pursue investment banking. At the junior level, you're basically an Excel monkey. The average finance bro probably spends 8 hours a day wrangling data and building financial models.

My worst nightmare. For those who don't know, I graduated with a finance degree and specialized in financial engineering and risk management (why I did that to myself, I still can't tell you). I had courses that revolved entirely around how to use Excel. News flash, I don't work in finance.

I literally pivoted careers to get away from Excel. So when I heard ChatGPT built a Google Sheets add-on that lets you build, edit, and analyze spreadsheets by just telling it what you want, I couldn't be more excited. If I was a finance bro, this would send me into an existential crisis.

I decided to try it out on my personal nutrition tracker. I gave it this prompt:

Give me a summary of my nutrition and weight trajectory in 2026 YTD.

It pulled together a full summary with trends, targets, and context I would have spent hours trying to make sense of manually. Within a minute, I learned that I’ve averaged 1,931 calories a day and have been losing 0.46 pounds a week since the start of 2026 (I’m on a diet).

I still remember how painful it was to learn Excel formulas like VLOOKUP. Now, you don’t need any of that to get meaningful insights out of a spreadhseet. What a time to be alive.

I can already think of so many ways to use this. Cleaning up messy data, building a budget tracker, analyzing a social growth dashboard. I'll keep testing and report back.

Now go try it yourself. Here’s how:

Go try something,

—Tyler

PS. What did you try with AI this week? Reply and tell me!