Hamel Husain's 'Revenge of the Data Scientist': agent reliability is data science
pandeyparul · x · 2026-10-21
A recommendation of Hamel Husain's article The Revenge of the Data Scientist, particularly for data scientists making sense of the AI agent wave. Core idea: amid all the agent-building hype, the work required to make agents reliable is largely fundamental data science — evaluation, analysis, and finding failure patterns.
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