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Join me to become the person who spots the data & AI BS before your team wastes six months on it.
Nov 11 • Sven Balnojan PhD
Stop Hiring AI Engineers. Start Hiring Data Engineers.
Why Employee #3 Should Be a Data Engineer, Not Employee #30.
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Sam Altman Is Right: Wrappers Will Die. He Just Forgot He Built One.
The three-layer architecture that survives every model drop — and why OpenAI can't build it.
Dec 4 • Sven Balnojan PhD
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You don't have 47 data problems. You have one.
Quality matching makes every part of your system look equally broken. It's a lie. Here's how to find the real bottleneck in two hours.
Nov 27 • Sven Balnojan PhD
I stopped hiring analysts. You should too (unless you are one).
Your 'business partner' defense just proved you're replaceable.
Nov 20 • Sven Balnojan PhD
AI isn't the tool (it's just an ingredient)
Why chief AI officers fail in 30 months (and what Capital One did instead)
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Why smart companies waste millions on 'proprietary data'
How Amazon and Netflix built data moats through observation access, not collection.
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BI industry death is inevitable. Your response isn't.
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