I once graded freshman chem final exams. There was a word problem. You're supposed to show your work. A student didn't know to solve the problem and humorously wrote "The answer is 3!" and circled it. But with fundamental laws there's no derivation, right? Did Newton basically get a 3x5 card and write "look, F=ma. Is what it is. Deal with it.". IIRC, Schrodingers equation was an inspired guess:
Computers can guess but is inspiration beyond even generative AI?
I used to write VBA. It's nice to have the functionality of excel and have all your code in one window vs cells with formulas scattered all over. You can write code that creates more
VB code. For example, a user pushes a button that executes code that VBA created on-the-fly, then sql into oracle DB to do whatever.
VB screen forms look ancient but if you have excel, it's free.