In 90s the show Friends, Chandler Bing’s job is “statistical analysis and data reconfiguration” which is likely unfamiliar to you because it is gone!

This was a job to manually collate financial reports into aggregated sums to sent up the hierarchy to the next level up.

This is now a trivial BI query and doesn’t require manual processing by humans.

A bigger shift is that now I only see CEOs or at most CxOs with secretaries. Mobile phones and Outlook calendars have largely wiped out that profession.

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tibbar 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wait, data analysis/data science is still a thriving human job sector! It's just that you can do way more analysis, way faster, than you could before.

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SOLAR_FIELDS 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it? I don’t really hire for analysts anymore because you can mostly just expose chat with your data mcp tools that end users can use and that gets you 80% of the way there. The person who puts together dashboards and writes sql against the star schema is pretty much a thing of the past.

Data engineers, on the other hand… way more relevant than ever before

	▲	tibbar 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The issue is that data complexity is also exploding in the age of LLMs, so it still takes a lot of archaeology to get reliable (as opposed to plausible) numbers. I think this dynamic also requires more data engineers, but I don't personally see the split in demand between those roles that you describe. Data analysts often have business or domain context that data engineers lack. Perhaps we'll start rolling data analysis work into "operations".

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Marsymars 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> A bigger shift is that now I only see CEOs or at most CxOs with secretaries. Mobile phones and Outlook calendars have largely wiped out that profession.

Depends heavily on the field. Most fields don't use the term "secretary", but e.g. my mid-sized company of several hundred employees has a single executive assistant, vs. my wife works at a law firm where it's pretty close to 1:1 professionals to assistants.

	▲	senordevnyc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Probably because law is organized around billable hours.

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SoftTalker 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This is now a trivial BI query and doesn’t require manual processing by humans.

It also doesn't require AI. Management wants to see how the same measurements change over time. They don't necessarily want the latest AI model's hot take on this month's data. Or maybe they do, but I doubt it's very helpful.

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troupo 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

See how all that was replaced by actual automation, and not by a stochastic parrot that is as likely to fail as not.

	▲	red75prime 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do you know why are you downvoted? "Stochastic parrot" is so out of touch with reality that you are a perfect example of the human gullibility.