When Excel Stopped Working and What It Says About Superficial Automation

Originally posted on trent.ai on November 11th 2025. Originally inspired by a real bug and an even realer problem. A Morning Routine Interrupted The other morning, I was doing something ordinary. I walked past my mum’s allotment, checked the rain gauge, and as I do every day, tried to record the reading in Microsoft Excel on my iPhone. Except this time, it didn’t work. At first, I thought it was j