Post by Matthew Urbanczyk

With the pace of AI innovation, the way we interact with data is fundamentally changing. The data world seems poised to do the unthinkable: ditch the dashboard. The shift is heading toward unified semantic layers and true self-service. Anthropic recently shared an incredible breakdown of this shift. By leveraging Claude, they managed to hit 95% self-service analytics with 95% accuracy, but I think that the interesting parts were what happened under the hood. This wasn't just a plug and play effort, it took lots of work (and patience) to get right! This highlights where the industry is actually heading. Moving into the AI era doesn't mean sidelining data teams—it means elevating them. The heavy lifting is shifting away from the tedious, manual maintenance of traditional dashboard layouts and moving toward high-impact data engineering foundations. The future of data isn’t a prettier dashboard. It’s a smarter conversation, built on data foundation. This is a great read:  https://lnkd.in/evrq8WY7 #DataEngineering #DataStrategy