The "AI will kill junior developer skills" conversation is half a thought.
The other half: some of those juniors are going to reach team lead level faster than any previous generation.
Let's not let fear drive the framing, instead, analyse what is changing and for whom.

#datafam

More data ≠ more value.

Better-curated data = better insights.

High-performing BI teams don’t connect to everything.

They model only what’s needed for decisions.

#datafam #dataanalytics

Coding is about 40% of what developers actually do.
The other half? 
😩documentation
😩compliance tasks
😩learning an unfamiliar codebase
😩quickly responding to an incident

We're not ignoring it in the AI discussion because it's hard to solve, & it's hard to put in a slide.

Most Tableau performance issues aren’t tooling problems.

They’re design decisions.

Poor scoping 👉 requests for more features, too much data 👉 poor performance.

Performance is a strategy, not a fix.

#datafam

Hiring vs. consultants isn’t the right question. The real question:

👉 Who can deliver value faster *in your current system*?

New hires learn the system.
Consultants diagnose it.
Different roles. Different speed.

#datafam

Measuring AI-gen code volume is the new vanity metric.
They create the appearance of control and accountability. And that's actually worse than measuring nothing, because it gives everyone permission to stop asking harder questions.

#datafam

2026 winners won't be the ones who threw the most AI at their problems.

They're the ones that built strong developer experience foundations before this moment, and have a culture that can actually run experiments without needing a guarantee first.

Breaking News
AI creates 25x more code than us, with 10x PRs
Clutter, slow code, & devs trying to review all of this

Faster..faster..FASTER

.. and that’s what we measure, so we should be proud of it. We are doing so well! 😍

or are we?