Future of Analytics
Essays on data, analytics, and the working life of the analyst — written from inside Silicon Valley by a fifteen-year veteran.
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Fifteen years of hype and disappointment. What's actually different this time, and what to ignore. A running collection of essays from inside Silicon Valley.
Aug 20, 2025
Benchmarks keep crowning smarter models, but the real moat is Consumer Inertia — the tendency to keep using a product out of habit. The GenAI race will be decided in the application layer.
9 min read
May 16, 2025
Silicon Valley goes through cycles of hype, very few of which end up making a dent. If LLMs are to survive, the application layer needs to win — not just the model.
7 min read
Mar 24, 2025
Which parts of data science will be most impacted by AI, which aspects remain uniquely human, and how data scientists can adapt and thrive.
11 min readAbout
Written by Vaibhav Srivastava — a Silicon Valley analytics leader with fifteen years across Meta, Pinterest, and eBay. The goal here is plain: clear thinking about where analytics is actually going.