Because it wasn't good enough—and for paying taxes!
It does not make sense at all - we just react very well to AI outrage slop on HN (and other platforms) which is why these articles get written so much. You just need some half-baked idea and boom! frontpage
> if we increasingly describe workers as merely being “human-in-the-loop,” what is the human actually there for?
Your anecdote just answered this! Because the LLM slop output in excel wasn't good enough!