2026 Data Scientist Playbook: Evals, Workflow Engineering, and Inference Economics
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-03
Wrapping up his thread, mdancho84 lays out the leverage skills for data scientists in 2026: building your own eval harness since public benchmarks are messy, workflow engineering where agents plus pipelines beat model shopping, and efficiency/cost awareness since inference economics is the product. The post also promotes his free Python AI/DS project workshop with 500 seats.
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