Hamel Husain: Data scientists have never had more alpha than right now
HamelHusain · x · 2026-09-19
Well-known AI engineering practitioner Hamel Husain argues that data scientists currently have unprecedented career alpha. He says data scientists email him constantly, and that his own pivot into evals as a former data scientist was no accident.
As LLM apps and agents proliferate, evaluation skills are becoming the scarcest and most leveraged capability in the field; he expands on this in his linked write-up.
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