u/Andronep

Historically, our mastery over tools like the steam engine, electricity, or even the internet followed a predictable pattern: we built the machine, defined its rules, and it did exactly what we told it to do. If it failed, we knew why. AI feels unforgiving because it breaks that contract.

I’m feeling pretty vulnerable today. I spent years mastering the "art" of libraries like Matplotlib—knowing exactly how to hand-modify legends, handle twin axes, and format plots perfectly for academic journals. It was a badge of honor.

Now? That skill feels obsolete.

I look at my CV and it feels like it’s getting "leaner" by the day. Listing scikit-learn, PyTorch, or even Python itself feels like listing "typewriter repair" in 1990. AI can make me (or at least make me feel like) a competent programmer in almost any language instantly.

If Natural Language is the new "main" programming language, what happens to the years we spent learning the syntax of the old ones? Anyone else struggling with this idea?

Don't get me wrong, I am bullish on AI and very much AI have doubled my productivity guy.

I have built a robust to outliers and skewed metrics, metric agnostic, self serving AB testing platform, power simulator, interaction effect, some Bayesian inference tools/platform with a streamlit app for the fixed horizon tests. Happy to share ideas, brainstorm for your needs. Let's chat regardless. Love the topic. Have passion for it.

A full stack DS here. Over 10 years of experience in industry (a few big names) plus academia (PhD and such). Have developed 10s of models from MMM, Propensities to cMAB from inception to deployment. Build and maintained experiment platform for 2 companies in Australia. Provided thought leadership to MLOps team om developing state of art drift, monitoring and Feature Store. Have solid grasp of statistics, ML, Reinforcement Learning.

I think I can be a good mentor for individual and start ups. How can I offer my help? I feel my extra hours are so wasted. Surely there got to be someone/something/somewhere that could benefit. Please help me find one.