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David Jayatillake ✝️A substack about my journey in data: building data teams/stacks for org impact
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Agent Analytics Engineer
A data team I work with has the typical issue with their backlog of having many small to medium complexity tickets; not all the interesting kind like data modelling etc, but many requests from stakeholders for new fields etc that enhance th...
AGI is probably here
I’m speaking at AI Skills 2026 tomorrow at 8:50pm GMT / 12:50pm PT tomorrow.
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Topics include:
– What are the must-have AI Tools & Skills for Career and Business Growth in 2026?
– What VCs think:...
2026 - the year of AGI
The year of narrow AGI
My prediction for this year is that we will see AGI within specific settings.
I think many people get the term AGI confused with ASI. Artificial General Intelligence is not Artificial Super Intelligence. ASI con...
Jevons Inversion
’s 2026 prediction for LLMs raised something that’s been rattling around my head. He invokes Jevons Paradox—the observation that as something becomes more efficient to produce, we don’t use less of it, we use vastly more. Coal. Compute. Now...
Legally Toast
I’ve been thinking about which jobs are effectively finished because of advances in AI. In short, any work that is repetitive, has abundant public training data, and mostly maps language input to language output is at serious risk.
Law is...
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