# Dashboards aren't (quite) dead

DevFeed: [Dashboards aren't (quite) dead](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/dashboards-aren-t-quite-dead-11741.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/dashboards-arent-quite-dead>)

Author: Jack Colsey

Published: 2026-07-29T16:24:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [semantic-layer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/semantic-layer.md>), [metric-standardization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/metric-standardization.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [semantic-layer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/semantic-layer.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that dashboards still matter even as LLMs make flexible, self-serve data analysis increasingly accessible. Semantic layers and reliable interfaces can help humans and LLMs calculate metrics consistently, but dashboards provide a curated, trusted view that keeps the business aligned on which interpretation of the data matters.

## Source excerpt

How they still matter as the curated, trusted layer that keeps both humans and LLMs telling the same story from the same data.