I’m a data engineer/architect and it’s the same over here, I get asked constantly “how can we stuff AI into this solution?”, never “should we consider using AI here? Is there a value?”, my view, people don’t understand their data and don’t want to put in the effort to understand their data and think that it’ll magically pull actionable insights from their dataswamp, nothing new, that’s been a constant for as long as I recall.
Like I totally understand the draw of new and exciting, but there’s so much you can do with traditional analytics, and in my view you really need to have a good foundation before doing anything else.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Similarly, my current job (now ending as they want to end remote work and I don’t want to move to rural Utah)- I guided them out of “block chain for supply chain” (lmao it’s cringe to even say that now) into “AI for productivity automation”
I give it 3 years max before all mentions of AI are scrubbed from the home oahe.
dumples@midwest.social 6 months ago
Yup. I hope we move back to data mining. I loved to joke that I put on my hardhat and go into the data mine every morning