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date: "2025-09-12T00:00:00Z"
categories:
  - linkedin
  - llms
description: "AI is rapidly automating many data-science tasks, so the role survives by evolving beyond routine execution rather than by preserving old workflows."
keywords: ["data science", "AI automation", "future of work", "vibe coding", "analytics", "job change"]
---

Slides for my DataHack Summit talk (controversially) titled **RIP Data Scientists** are at https://sanand0.github.io/talks/2025-08-21-rip-data-scientists/

**Summary**: as data scientists we explore, clean, model, explain, deploy, and anonymize datasets. I live-vibe-coded _each_ step with DGCA data in 35 minutes using ChatGPT.

Of course, it's the _tasks_ that are dying, not the role. Data scientists will leverage AI, differentiate on other skills, and move on.

But the highlight was an audience comment: "I'm no data scientist. I'm a domain person. I'll tell you all this: If you don't follow these practices, you won't have a job with me!"

They're catching on! 🙂

![](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2025-09-12-rip-data-scientists-linkedin.jpg)

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sanand0_slides-for-my-datahack-summit-talk-controversially-activity-7364307983037579266-gnqf)