One Week with WorkBuddy: I Ditched All Data Cleaning Tools

Honestly, when I saw that news about "AI data cleaning tools," my first reaction was: here comes another quick-money grab. Free cleaning, format standardization, deduplication, repair—I know these terms too well. Every tool hypes them up to the sky before launch, but after downloading, it either lags like crazy or can only handle ten lines of data. But this time is different. I directly tried WorkBuddy (my old buddy for half a year) and discovered a counter-intuitive truth: Data cleaning tools themselves are a pseudo-need; what you actually need is something like WorkBuddy that embeds cleaning into the entire workflow.