# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Excel is arguably the world's most prolific programming environment, and AI is opening up many more to many more people.

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### 2026-10-29 update #ai #end-user-computing #governance
Excel is arguably the world's most prolific programming environment, and AI is opening up many more to many more people.
- Banks find their spreadsheets, rank them by how much depends on them, name an owner and put controls on the ones that matter. The Bank of England expects it.
- Software written with AI across the business has business logic and often some of the company's IP, like a spreadsheet.
- The same three questions apply, what exists, what depends on it, and who owns it.
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