Another casualty of AI might be the PowerPoint and Google Slide presentation. Many are now using coding to create decks.
By Jonathan Small | edited by Dan Bova | Nov 02, 2026
PowerPoint may soon be facing match point. People have been predicting the death of presentation software for decades, but AI strategist reignited the debate last week with a LinkedIn post declaring “Google Slides & PowerPoint are dead,” according to LinkedIn News.
Why? The argument is that AI can now build interactive, web-based presentations from a simple prompt. Anthropic’s Claude Design turns a rough outline into an on-brand deck that exports as standalone HTML, as well as PowerPoint. Microsoft is fighting back by building AI editing directly into PowerPoint, and says new-user retention for the feature jumped 36%.
But some business owners are hungry for a new way to communicate. AI coach says entrepreneurs at a recent mastermind asked him to teach them how he builds his presentations as websites using AI coding tools.
Not everyone is a fan. Skeptics point out that HTML decks are hard to edit without AI, and some corporate email filters block HTML attachments. E-Tabs founder Benjamin Rietti doesn’t think PowerPoint is going anywhere. What’s dying, he says, is “the old way of producing those decks”: the late nights, endless copying and pasting, and last-minute number checks.
PowerPoint may soon be facing match point. People have been predicting the death of presentation software for decades, but AI strategist reignited the debate last week with a LinkedIn post declaring “Google Slides & PowerPoint are dead,” according to LinkedIn News.
Why? The argument is that AI can now build interactive, web-based presentations from a simple prompt. Anthropic’s Claude Design turns a rough outline into an on-brand deck that exports as standalone HTML, as well as PowerPoint. Microsoft is fighting back by building AI editing directly into PowerPoint, and says new-user retention for the feature jumped 36%.
But some business owners are hungry for a new way to communicate. AI coach says entrepreneurs at a recent mastermind asked him to teach them how he builds his presentations as websites using AI coding tools.
Not everyone is a fan. Skeptics point out that HTML decks are hard to edit without AI, and some corporate email filters block HTML attachments. E-Tabs founder Benjamin Rietti doesn’t think PowerPoint is going anywhere. What’s dying, he says, is “the old way of producing those decks”: the late nights, endless copying and pasting, and last-minute number checks.