AI Agents vs Data Analysts: The Truth from Amplitude PM (41 Min Deep Dive) | James Evans

Name: AI Agents vs Data Analysts: The Truth from Amplitude PM (41 Min Deep Dive) | James Evans
Uploaded: 2025-07-06
Duration: 2517 s
Channel: Peter Yang
Description: Read a transcript preview of “AI Agents vs Data Analysts: The Truth from Amplitude PM (41 Min Deep Dive) | James Evans” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-07-06.

Channel: Peter Yang

Uploaded: 2025-07-06

Duration: PT2517S

Read a transcript preview of “AI Agents vs Data Analysts: The Truth from Amplitude PM (41 Min Deep Dive) | James Evans” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-07-06.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] James is the head of AI for Amplitude.

[0:03] Why do you think uh nobody has figured

[0:05] out how to build a AI powered data

[0:07] scientist or analyst yet? Oh, there's

[0:09] all these trends and AI it's going to be

[0:10] our crystal ball and it's going to like

[0:12] pull out the trends magically. Like I

[0:13] think of it much more as unlimited time.

[0:15] It's not it's certainly there are some

[0:16] things that these agents find that

[0:18] humans may not have stumbled upon, but

[0:20] most of it is just doing the same things

[0:21] you can do in Amplitude as a human if

[0:24] you had 100 hours. It's just most people

[0:25] don't. Everyone gets all hot and

[0:27] bothered about this. Like should agents

[0:28] be able to ship stuff without human in

[0:30] the loop? My personal take is you can

[0:32] create a ton of value by just being in

[0:34] this middle state where the agent can

[0:36] work in the background and produce

[0:38] insights and ideas but then a human has

[0:40] to just like click approve. Should we be

[0:41] worried about our jobs like as a data

[0:42] scientist or like a PM maybe I shouldn't

[0:45] say this right but

[0:47] okay welcome everyone. My guest today is

[0:49] James Evans. James is the head of AI for

[0:52] amplitude and really excited to talk to

[0:54] James about how AI will transform

[0:56] analytics. James will also demo how

[0:59] anyone can have a team of AI agents for

[1:01] analytics and also we should talk about

[1:03] how PMs and data scientists can get

[1:06] ready for this f future. So welcome

[1:07] James. Thanks for having me. All right.

[1:10] So uh let me start with a spicy

[1:12] question. So you know we've seen like AI

[1:14] completely transform like coding right

[1:16] like cursor and all