[mooreds]

> Digging into use cases you’d fine that for a particular question you needed to not just get all the rows from a column, you needed to do some obscure JOIN ON operation. This fact was only known by 2 data scientists in charge of writing the report. This flavor or problem - data being messy, with the messiness only documented in a few people’s brains, repeated over and over.

This reminds me of one of the key plot points in "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell. Small spoiler ahead so if you haven't read it and want to be surprised, stop reading.

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Basically, one of the characters works as an AI implementer, replacing humans in their jobs by learning deeply about how they do their work and coding up an AI replacement. She run across a SETI researcher and works on replacing him, but he has a human intuition when matching signals that she would never have discovered because it was so random.

Great book if you haven't read it.