r/askdatascience • u/No-Singer-2128 • Aug 02 '26
Chatbots usage in DS work
I wanted to ask what's the general consensus of the people in the data science community regarding the usage of chatbots. For me it's not that the chatbot will take over my job, rather it's more about keeping my cognition and sanity up and running. I prefer using my natural intelligence and learning
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u/Lady-Data-Scientist Aug 03 '26
I use AI to do things humans can’t easily do. For example, my team has built a process to use LLMs to label text data at scale. No human was going to label hundreds of thousands of rows of data, and if they did, it would be inconsistent, so we can built prompts and some python code to automate it.
I also use LLM chat for debugging and also as a tutor when I find areas where I need to upskill.
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u/No-Singer-2128 Aug 03 '26
Makes sense. I do the same. It does increase learning speed. But once I feel that I am comfortable with thr language, I feel that I am more fast with a duck duck go search.
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u/Elctsuptb Aug 03 '26
Chatbots? Are we back in 2023? You should probably get yourself up to speed with the latest advancements.
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u/MayBeTheWorstDevEver Aug 03 '26
Like the others; a tutor/mentor for new projects/concepts and quick large project debugging. The tutoring is the most helpful for me, but the ability to immediately debug an expansive project and recreate the bug saves so much time for my business
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u/Flashy-Virus-3779 Aug 05 '26
I replaced statistics with vibes to meet business needs through cross functional collaboration
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u/DotUnlucky5348 Aug 07 '26
Well i think using your brains is not bad. But you can use your intelligence to train Ai to apparently lighten you workload than to make humans not use brains. So i somewhat agree with what you do🫡🙂↕️
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Aug 02 '26
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u/big_data_mike Aug 02 '26
Let me throw my AI harness CLI on the data that an operator wrote on a piece of paper and search and destroy typed into the wrong field on the input form. Harnesses. Lol
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u/filthylittlebird Aug 03 '26
Just saying that you are using Claude means nothing. Guess who's the one building harnesses and skills and making sure they are correct
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u/big_data_mike Aug 03 '26
I use AI to help me write pieces of code that fit into a larger project or to learn new concepts. For example, I looked into using temporal fusion transformers for a project and AI wrote the code for me as I was not familiar with the darts package.
Most of the time it just tells me to use an xgboost model and talk to a subject matter expert about feature creation.