I think some of the doubters here are conflating a few things.
Any analyst will struggle if data quality is a mess, and there is a lack of clear semantic layer/useful documentation around how to query metrics/join tables from your warehouse. These are problems that affect human analysts as well as LLM based 'virtual' ones... However, these are separate problems being addressed by other players.
An llm powered chatbot that can consume adequate context from company systems should be able to perform on par with a junior analyst with a similar level of context. All else equal, the LLM analyst will be orders of magnitude cheaper and open up data analysis to non-sql-literate people (huge unlock).
Any analyst will struggle if data quality is a mess, and there is a lack of clear semantic layer/useful documentation around how to query metrics/join tables from your warehouse. These are problems that affect human analysts as well as LLM based 'virtual' ones... However, these are separate problems being addressed by other players.
An llm powered chatbot that can consume adequate context from company systems should be able to perform on par with a junior analyst with a similar level of context. All else equal, the LLM analyst will be orders of magnitude cheaper and open up data analysis to non-sql-literate people (huge unlock).