Re:The Dawn of the Data Intelligence Engineer
by lavendermon on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:54AM
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To your point, I wonder if organizations will trend towards hiring 3rd party companies to check work so they have someone to blame and can "focus on innovation". It's already a popular tactic to hire consultants for risky business decisions. Perhaps this is a new prediction: companies get leaner while outsourcing the checks to the same people they fired.
Big companies though, are more concerned with value and risk. Say some data model provides $5 million in value, hiring a data person to check "everything is kosha", even if in theory someone could vibe code it by prompting an LLM, is a pretty good investment if it derisks the process.