Data quality hype is fading — "boring is where the budget leaves," practitioner warns
YvesMulkers · x · 2026-10-06
Data practitioner Yves Mulkers observes that data quality has slid into the fading-hype pile alongside agentic AI. His read: not that the problem is solved, but that it's become boring — and boring is where budget leaves first. He asks readers whether data quality is still funded at their companies.
More from Companies & People
- Follow-up: neolabs should embrace the VC portfolio model, could 1000x research — avt_im · 2026-10-06
- LinkedIn: US added 750K+ AI jobs, led by 282K low-paid data annotators — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-10-06
- Yoav Goldberg: the current AI era truly began with the GPT-3 paper, and Alec Radford deserves the credit — yoavgo · 2026-10-06
- View: neolabs are VC's bet that open-ended research yields trillion-dollar firms — avt_im · 2026-10-06
- Nomagic researcher Michał Nauman wins 2026 Witold Lipski Prize in applied computer science — m_wulfmeier · 2026-10-06
- LeCun amplifies NYT op-ed arguing six charts show just how much the economy needs AI — ylecun · 2026-10-06