Yes…it’s about ChatGPT

I’ll be a bit bold today.

The emergence of Cloud Computing and SaaS solutions are key trends from the past couple of decades that closed the gap between data teams and business teams.

The next undeniable piece of the puzzle is happening now (and in the coming decade). Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLM), and ChatGPT are reshaping data and business skills.

(Side note: If you ignore the hype and the fear cycle there are tremendous real-life working use cases for how these tools are changing our work).

What does this have to do with our conversation this week?

Just like the previous trends of cloud and SaaS increased the speed and ease while decreasing the technical skill required to build data solutions - generative AI is doing the same thing.

Less and less time will be spent solving writing thorny SQL queries or optimizing streaming Spark jobs. AI will automate many parts of that work.

This opens up huge space for data teams to collaborate and integrate closer with business teams.

Close the gap in your career. Close the gap for the teams around.

I’m here,

Sawyer

p.s. So are data people out of a job? Yes, if you planned to differentiate yourself in the market by writing code for the next couple of decades. Rather than learning or optimizing around technical skills, optimize for technical and design thinking. Learn to think like a data professional (that’s what this email list is here for).