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I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic, or you are just inexperienced

By "useful" he means "will make VC's and uninformed investors feel good"... gotta remember, the definition of "useful" is relative.

"useful" means something that helps people.

Realistic examples of small, useful AI projects a junior dev could do in a sprint:

1) check for spelling/grammar mistakes on company website 2) summarise transcripts of zoom calls 3) scan codebase for misleading comments 4) generate mermaid diagrams from terraform 5) Scan Jira for near-duplicates on a backlog and add a label

None of these require data science teams to get involved.

what’s most useful is how many heads can be removed above the junior level and below the exec level.

that’s a lot of cash saved. basically as good as cash earned, when you’re getting funding rounds of cash.

As a data scientist, there’s basically 0 data science involved in building a small tool out of the api or high level model interfaces.

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