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🔥 CONTROVERSIAL TAKE: Data Scientists are becoming extinct. GenAI killed them.

🔥 CONTROVERSIAL TAKE: Data Scientists are becoming extinct. GenAI killed them. Just 3 years ago, data scientists were the unicorns of tech. Companies fought over them, projects crawled at snail pace, …

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🔥 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗱 - 𝗯𝘂𝘁

🔥 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗱 - 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. That’s my observation from years of product conversations, not a …

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WOW! Yesterday OpenAI released two open-weight models: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-

WOW! Yesterday OpenAI released two open-weight models: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. Roughly 120 and 20 Billion parameters in size, and both featuring what the model card calls reasoning - an extended…

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Absolutely looking forward to it. I can promise you that we will explore some exciting new AI things

Absolutely looking forward to it. I can promise you that we will explore some exciting new AI things in my session. As Max outline in his post below - there are just a few seats open. Would be happy t…

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The current state of the AI Agents ecosystem reminds me of the early days of technologies like Big Data

The current state of the AI Agents ecosystem reminds me of the early days of technologies like Big Data/Hadoop or Containers/Kubernetes: many different tools, frameworks, and open source projects to c…

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Is somebody around you drowning? This is a super important question and, as Carlos put it in his post

Is somebody around you drowning? This is a super important question and, as Carlos put it in his post, a question which naturally translates also to the work environment. I’ve been in situations where…

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If you don't have the data available, implementing an AI use case becomes a data

If you don’t have the data available, implementing an AI use case becomes — in the projects I’ve seen — a data gathering death march, often crossing organizational boundaries. Instead of spending 80% …

AIArchitecture
This morning I was late for work, but I got diffused by something worthwhile. I stumbled across a be

This morning I was late for work, but I got “diffused” by something worthwhile. I stumbled across a beautifully crafted video that provides excellent intuition on how diffusion-based AI image generati…

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Being in the industry for many years in different roles, this resonates deeply with me. Expert versus Generalist.

Being in the industry for many years in different roles, this resonates deeply with me. Expert versus Generalist. Highly recommend to have a read of Constantin’s article and a deep dive on the blog po…

CareerSoftwareEngineering
Stefan, why are you still with AWS after already being there for so long - currently 8 years?

Stefan, why are you still with AWS after already being there for so long - currently 8 years? I get this question constantly, in countless variations. My honest answer is always the same: it’s the peo…

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