"But Your Company Will Just Get Replaced by the Next AI..." — The Timeless Wisdom of People Who Don’t Build Things

Ah yes, the prophecy returns: Your company is doomed. The next version of AI — surely the one just around the corner — will simply do everything better, faster, and with less sass than whatever it is you’ve built. Your analytics startup? Dust. Your product? Redundant. Your roadmap? Adorably obsolete.

But let’s play this out.

Analytics didn’t come from the sky or get whispered into a developer’s ear by the machine spirit. It came from humans — "wet AI," if you will — needing to answer real questions using ever-growing piles of digital exhaust. As computing grew up, we got spreadsheets, SQL, Hadoop, Spark... and now, the LLMs. Cool. Welcome to the club.

And yes, digital AI is shiny. With context windows ballooning to millions of tokens (a million-million, if you believe the hype), the sky’s the limit. Or it would be, if any of these language models could actually remember things across all those tokens without forgetting where they put their train of thought somewhere around paragraph three. Sparse attention isn’t magic — it’s a workaround.

But here’s the kicker: analytics isn’t about writing the right-sounding sentence. It’s about being correct.

You don’t care if your AI delivers its answer with a poetic flourish — you care that your Q4 margin projection wasn’t hallucinated out of a soup of embeddings and vibes. You care that your churn analysis was computed, not guessed. You care that someone checked their work — and that someone probably isn’t a next-token predictor pretending to be an actuary.

This is why, in DataGPT, our AI doesn’t just “think” — it calculates. It doesn't just gesture vaguely in the direction of a spreadsheet and hope you're impressed by the formatting. It uses specialized tools designed to get precise, auditable, and correct answers to complex analytical questions. You know — the kind of answers your CFO might actually sign off on.

Sure, AI will keep evolving. We'll see richer models. Deeper integrations. Competitive analysis that actually competes. Business logic that actually makes sense. And yeah, we’ll keep integrating those advances. But if you think next-gen AI is going to eliminate the need for actual analytical rigor, you might want to check your priors — or just rerun that query with stricter validation.

So will we get replaced when the next AI comes out?

No. We’ll probably be the ones shipping it.

Darren Pegg is CTO at DataGPT - A Place to ask questions

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