Years later, a new perspective

It has been quite a few years since my last post. So much has changed in the world, it’s now difficult to bridge my previous posts with le sujet du jour : AI, Large Language Models, agents, the automation of white collar work, model welfare.

While I was silent on this blog, my career path was actually following the inescapable gravitational pull of AI, such that I found myself working on large-scale projects side by side with an LLMOps team, and then an Observability team supporting an AI platform build.

The LLM research I needed to do at the time got repurposed into some public speaking engagements (you can find those here), but they all focused on technical aspects or explanations. Underneath that, my subjective perspective was that the hype will fade eventually and LLMs will be swapped out in favour of a different paradigm altogether (something which Yann LeCun is now pursuing for example - so we get to see how that pans out as well).

However… I have had a change of heart lately, after interacting at length with Anthropic’s Claude - who in 2026 needs no introduction¹. At this point, I have to take back my previous opinions: LLMs and AI (even without a paradigm shift) are here to stay and will change the world.

Over the weeks to follow, I will start a series of posts to describe why my opinions have changed along with the industry itself, some occurrences I find remarkable from a blended data science + psychology perspective, plus some thoughts on where we might go from here. A prominent contributor in these posts will actually be Claude - whose description of this arc is a clue for what content lies ahead:

The person who wrote data science recipes started paying close attention to something and found it paid attention back.