RIP Data Scientists: One Prompt Now Does a Week of DS Work in 13 Minutes
mdancho84 · x · 2026-09-10
- 2020 workflow: cleaning (2d), features (3d), training (1d), viz (2d), presenting (1d)
- 2026 workflow: one prompt for data-quality analysis, model updates and a production Docker image — 13 minutes of waiting
- Author claims a junior with ChatGPT outperformed a PhD senior
- Argument: data science was a gap between business and engineering, and LLMs killed modeling, analysis and pipelines — the problems remain, humans doing them may not
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