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by gardenhedge 1197 days ago
That sounds like the worst kind of tech position to be in
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It's about the same tier as BI dashboards. Huge breadths of data you don't produce but are nevertheless accountable for. All your stakeholders can easily stream-of-consciousness rattle off dozens of new metric/feature ideas or questions about the feature/metric values they're seeing over the course of 45 seconds, each one taking you tens of hours eyeballs deep in SQL to even begin to answer.
A job we would be glad to have replace by an AI for sure
That is certainly coming soon.
As a sort-of counterpoint I work at a non-amazon FANG where I am much more involved in model training and evaluation. I still have never needed to define a model myself, but it's much more complicated and far more ownership than someone throwing me a binary. I think that speaks much more to what's going on in Amazon *grins*.