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  engineering, distributed systems, human annotation, and functional evaluation
  across a much broader surface area than precision and recall. The mistake is
  isolating it to one team. The answer is a diverse one. Speaker info: -
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/philliphetzel --- Watch along with the corrected
  transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE
  page:
  https://ai.engineer/talks/NKwIX3CiRgU-does-genai-belong-to-data-scientists
  Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing
  page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs
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  returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS
  2026 in Sydney ---
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# Does GenAI "belong" to data scientists? — Phil Hetzel, Braintrust

At most traditional enterprises, GenAI got handed to the ML platform team because it had AI in the name. Phil Hetzel from Braintrust argues that was the wrong move, not because data scientists lack value, but because Anthropic and OpenAI already ran the data pipeline. What is left is prompt and context engineering, distributed systems, human annotation, and functional evaluation across a much broader surface area than precision and recall. The mistake is isolating it to one team. The answer is a diverse one. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philliphetzel --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/NKwIX3CiRgU-does-genai-belong-to-data-scientists Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney ---

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