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Mihail Eric
Personal blog · mihaileric.com/postsaiprogrammingcareer
Mihail Eric's personal blog at mihaileric.com covers ai, programming and career. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mihail Eric's posts on data engineers versus data scientists, which one commenter says created waves on HN. Comments also discuss malleable software and agents, citing the posts as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Engineer, researcher, educator.
Most-linked posts?
- We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-13
- Building a Deep Learning Computer from Scratch2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-05
- How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-08
- A Software Engineer Does 100 Standup Comedy Open Mics2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-06
- A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-27
- How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-12
What Hacker News says?
The challenges here feel insurmountable, but I can't help but feel there's a certain inevitability to the de-monolithization de-totalization of the domain of computing being ensconced so wholly as it is inside of applications, experiences purely pre-defined by a given app. Already with AI we are seeing a huge uptick in people's expectations that agents operate across apps. The app is losing its monopoly of power, is…
Comment linking /posts/how-alexa-dropped-the-ball-conversational-ai/
on “Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps”Submitted We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers as a story · 718 points
HN discussionThis is such an important topic and one that I am personally very interested in. Basically it comes down to finding an expert or mentor who has either written one or is willing to help you. I know this is not necessarily the answer you're looking for, but the challenge as a beginner is that you do not know what you do not know, and you do not have the knowledge required to judge what is important and what is superfi…
Comment linking /posts/complete-artificial-intelligence-undergraduate-course-plan/
on “Ask HN: How do you create learning plans for skills development”Submitted A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree as a story · 183 points
HN discussionI didn't, but I recently saw positions described as data ops / data devops so it might be a good place to start. I think Data Engineering also has to do with lot of Devops topics so it might be worth to go through that route (especially since Data Engineering is in high demand, i.e. https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/we-need-data-engineers-not-... ) I think a bit part of the difference of the job is that data encodes…
Comment linking /posts/we-need-data-engineers-not-data-scientists/
on “Ask HN: Have you tried switching from DevOps to Data Science”Submitted How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system as a story · 180 points
HN discussionI like Geoffrey Huntley definition of what an agent is based on this video oin this channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2auYrBDA4 "An agent is just a white true loop" on a llm with some conditional tool calling if needed be. A simple a while True: user_input = get_input() response = llm.complete(user_input) if response.wants_tool: result = execute_tool(response.tool_call) response = llm.complete(result) print…
Comment linking /The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
on “What is an 'agent'? A class/instance definition, updated with the 2026-07-28 spe”Submitted MLOps is a mess but that's to be expected as a story · 149 points
HN discussionWhat are your thoughts here, has the data engineer hype gone too far? Are we over-indexing now on data and analytics engineers vs data scientists? It has now been two years since the "We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers" blog post was published that created waves here on HN: https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/we-need-data-engineers-not-...
Comment linking /posts/we-need-data-engineers-not-data-scientists/
on a deleted threadSubmitted We Don't Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Honey, I Sold My First Bootstrapped SaaS Company as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an End-to-End Machine Learning Application as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends in Machine Learning from NeurIPS 2019 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends in Natural Language Processing 2019 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Code Demystified: Whirring, Skidaddling, Flibbertigibetting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built an AI hitch to have better dates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Software Engineer Does 100 Standup Comedy Open Mics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of the US Financial Regulatory System for Devs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Deep Learning Computer from Scratch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a deep learning computer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Software Engineer Tries to Do Standup Comedy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Complete Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Finetune GPT3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Deep Learning Computer from Scratch as a story · 1 points
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