Anna Monaco, a 22-year-old product engineer, designer, and recent University of Pennsylvania graduate, knows plenty about the woes of working in spreadsheets.
“I've always wanted to automate my own busy work,” she told Fortune in a recent interview. In addition, nearly everyone she knew at Penn planned to work in consulting and banking, where most of their day would be spent doing tedious, repetitive work in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets—researching, analyzing, and entering data into cells, rows and columns. She became convinced that using AI agents—pieces of software that rely on large language models (LLMs) for automating tasks—could be a game-changer.
