Comment by data-ottawa

As a long time DS I sadly feel we filled the field with people who don’t do any actual data science or engineering. A lot of it is glorified BI users who at most pull some averages and run half baked AB tests.

I don’t think the field will go away with AI, frankly with LLMs I’ve automated that bottom 80% of queries I used to have to do for other users and now I just focus on actual hard problems.

That “build a self serve dashboard” or number fetching is now an agentic tool I built.

But the real meat of “my business specializes in X, we need models to do this well” has not yet been replaceable. I think most hard DS work is internal so isn’t in training sets (yet).