Career circle: from Data Analyst to 'Data Analyst of Traces' in the AI era

dejavucoder · x · 2026-10-22

A joke about Hamel Husain's career arc: Data Analyst (2003) → Data Scientist (2010) → ML Engineer (2016), and now effectively a 'Data Analyst of Traces' — poking fun at how hands-on AI evals work still boils down to manually reading model traces, just like old-school data analysis.

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