Honestly I feel like for small data analysis, simple regressions etc., AI is game changer.

Not for the reasons you might think. As a social scientist, my biggest advantage in postdoc applications was my programming capabilities. Now, my PIs think that they don’t matter. I have difficulties explaining to them why a vibe coder shouldn’t do science but it really is impossible for some people…

My instinct is to lurk even in this thread…

It’s trade mechanism is the reason they gain a lot of money. Trade really needs to work flawlessly.

I don’t agree with your conjecture about the user not understanding how Lemmy works. My understanding is that he does not think it’s a good system.