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duskhat commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
kaspermarstal · 6 months ago
Looks very similar yes, it is a great UI paradigm for running many prompts. I think of spreadsheets as the OG low-code tool and with just a sprinkle of LLMs, people can do so much more with tools they already know
duskhat · 6 months ago
Totally agree! And to be clear, I'm not intending to discourage you (or anyone else) from working on it. A bunch of smart people separately working and iterating to create the best version of spreadsheet + LLMs makes me a happy user
duskhat commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
kaspermarstal · 7 months ago
I'm continuing the work on Cellm, an Excel extension that let's you call LLMs in cell formulas like =PROMPT(A1, "Rate the sentiment of the customer feedback as positive, neutral, or negative"), and then drag the formula down to apply the same prompt to thousands of rows. I built it after my girlfriend had to manually classify 7,500 research papers. Cellm automates that kind of repetitive work.

Since we added MCP and the use of structured output to "spill" multiple return values into adjecent cells, it is the quickest way I know of to monitor competitors blogs everyday before my 09:00 meeting. And also the quickest way I know of to test new AI models. I have a sheet with SimpleQA, MMLUPro, or GPQA Diamond and testing a new model is a matter of adding a new column. The whole idea is to enable normal people (like, non-techies) to automate manual, repetitive tasks with AI like programmers routinely do.

https://github.com/getcellm/cellm

duskhat · 6 months ago
Somewhat similar is https://paradigmai.com.
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