Is GenAI a Silver Bullet for Qualitative Data Analysis?

TL;DR I wrote an opinion piece with my friend Christoph Treude on qualitative data analysis (QDA) in the GenAI era. We conclude that it has great capability in speeding up the process (e.g., transcription, finding codes) but is fundamentally and philosophically at odds with Big-Q reflexive data analysis. Below I elaborate on my perspective, which Christoph may not agree with! Paper:…