Don't Build AI Products If You Won't Inspect Your Data, Says Hamel Husain
hugobowne · x · 2026-09-04
Hugo Bowne's thread conclusion: if you won't inspect your data, don't build the AI product — agents can surface the traces but cannot give you the curiosity or judgment to understand them. Quoted context: Hamel Husain argues data science isn't dead — AI creates more data and noisy signals to debug, making data-science judgment more valuable than ever.
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