There's no such thing as post-theory science because the job of science is to produce knowledge. Knowledge is the sum of methods, facts, and models that we use to understand the world.

When you're using ML models to reason inductively from data you can produce systems that do some work, they can aid with the practical and empirical aspects of science, but they don't replace science because they don't produce knowledge.

This is like the Skinner behaviourism debate from half a century ago but with a dog from Boston Dynamics instead of the organic version