<< It’s got to be one of the first to go in AI age especially since the market is so saturated with mediocre talents.

This is interesting. I wanted to dig into it a little since I am not sure I am following the logic of that statement.

Do you mean that AI would take over the field, because by default most people there are already not producing anything that a simple 'talk to data' LLM won't deliver?

Not GP, but as a data engineer who has worked with data scientists for 20 years, I think the assessment is unfortunately true.

I used to work on teams where DS would put a ton of time into building quality models, gating production with defensible metrics. Now, my DS counterparts are writing prompts and calling it a day. I'm not at all convinced that the results are better, but I guess if you don't spend time (=money) on the work, it's hard to argue with the ROI?