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Went back and edited while you were replying. Sorry! Coffee still incoming.
You'd be surprised at what people can do. My chief revenue officer never knew what SQL is but once he had access to Claude, he built some amazing dashboards that he always wanted.

LLMs are getting exceptionally good at interpreting vague asks.

Do I trust a non-developer to build a production software system? No.

Do I think they can control Excel spreadsheets, PPTs, and other productivity tools through MCP? Absolutely.

The question that needs to be asked is when everyone can create their own dashboard, are they all looking at the same information and in the same way so that they can be aligned?

One of the biggest issues I've seen in this kind of environment is that there are 50 dashboards, created by different people, and the data presented on them hasn't been validated to ensure that the data is correct and pulling from the same location. It's not clear that the data can be trusted and it's not clear what the authoritative source of truth is.

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