Researcher jokes about tech-stack churn, says real expertise is foreseeing AI project failures

Researcher RexDouglass humorously recounts moving from STATA to R, Python and Rust as automation keeps upending his skills, and argues that real expertise means having seen a project fail enough times to foresee how it will go wrong—especially when supervising AI agents.

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