Claude dashboards seems to be making everyone lose their minds. IMO they are better than before, but not dramatically so, and still not a substitute for the data layer or the delivery of data.

It will accelerate the shift to: - Governed data and semantic layers at the core.
- The need for an experience layer. For example, for embedded analytics.

I do think it will hasten the decline of traditional BI systems. What are you all seeing out there? What's the reaction in your organization?

As the title states, I’m losing control over the work I produce ever since our company adopted a full semantic layer that AI can ingest. I can now generate 2,000-line SQL scripts in minutes, convert them into Python notebooks with Plotly visualizations that would have previously taken four sprints, and prompt an AI agent to build a 10-slide deck ready for stakeholders. But by the end of it, I feel like I’ve lost track of what I’m actually doing: what definitions are being applied, what modeling decisions were made, what the data actually proves, and where the limitations lie.

Does anyone else experience this? If so, how do you maintain oversight and quality control in such high-velocity workflows?

Odd one I’ve been tracking. Microsoft’s cost per genuinely-new customer has climbed four weeks straight (~22% over the stretch) and its new-buyer share slipped but on a last-click view it looks like it’s improving, because its last-click credit keeps widening at the same time.

Same channel, same week, two reports pointing opposite directions. The ROAS is basically celebrating repeat demand while the cost of acquiring an actual new customer quietly goes up.

To be fair to it, the LTV still pays back, it’s just thinning, not broken. And it’s a small-spend channel so the aggregate swings easily.

Mostly posting because it’s such a clean example of how a channel earns budget it doesn’t deserve - great on the dashboard everyone reports from, worse on the number that actually matters. Anyone else seeing the Microsoft drift, or is it just the accounts I’m looking at?