## Metadata - Author: [[Benn stancil|Benn Stancil]] - Full Title:: Everything Is Still BI - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/everything-is-still-bi - Finished date:: [[2024-05-24]] ## Highlights > Today, you might say that analytics engineering is going to be [sexiest job of the 21st century](https://tdwi.org/articles/2022/02/28/ppm-all-analytics-engineers-have-sexiest-job.aspx); that [centralized data platforms like Snowflake](https://benn.substack.com/p/entity-layer?utm_source=publication-search#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWorkday%2C%20Salesforce%2C%20Adobe%E2%80%94they%E2%80%99re%20going%20to%20be%20reimplemented%20as%20apps%20on%20top%20of%20the%20data%20layer.%E2%80%9D) will make analytics more accessible; that using AI for development gives you [an economic edge](https://x.com/saranormous/status/1780479005197775102) over traditional software vendors; that you’re riding a strong trend towards [democratization of generative AI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmJLYRMwb_Q). There’s a new gold rush, and you’re selling shovels. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hynqssna5szt6k2h2gdrh8va)) > Better dashboards, more visualization types, and easier ways to access data were, quite literally, our top feature requests too. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hynref3px4hdtbpc0nf9e316)) > In other words, no matter when a data product was created or what its first features were, it will inevitably collapse into the [same singularity](https://science.nasa.gov/universe/black-holes/anatomy/#singularity): Database connectors; a code-based query editor; a code-free query builder; lots of charts; dashboards; self-serve. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hynrftmpzfj60wxvn3td4tma)) > These people are successful for a far more accessible reason: They’re stubborn. Most of their ideas weren’t all that [new](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace) or [profound](https://www.cnet.com/culture/tesla-motors-founders-now-there-are-five/). Instead, they were uniquely insistent on what they wanted to build, and uniquely unrelenting in building that thing. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hynrmkkn9ejwspwey5y33w4q))