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

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​ ​ Today, I want to share a new episode with James Evans.

James is the Head of AI for Amplitude, the leading product analytics platform. We had a great chat about why nobody has built a good AI analyst yet and why he’s betting on AI agents that can monitor your product 24/7.

James also shared some real talk about whether AI will displace PM and data scientist jobs.

(00:00) Why nobody has built a good AI data analyst yet (03:32) The biggest problem with product analytics today (06:13) Live demo: AI agents that monitor your website 24/7 (21:48) The hardest parts of building AI analytics products (25:21) How to evaluate AI agents that run experiments (32:53) AI product pricing strategies that actually work (35:42) Should data scientists worry about their jobs? (38:04) Non-obvious advice for building AI products

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