You still have to understand what's happening and why I think. I remember going to a cloud meetup in the early days of AWS. Somebody said "you won't need DBAs

You still have to understand what's happening and why I think. I remember going to a cloud meetup in the early days of AWS. Somebody said "you won't need DBAs because the database is hosted in the cloud." Well, no. You need somebody with a thorough understanding of SQL in general and your specific database stack to successfully scale. They might not have the title "DBA," but you need that knowledge and experience to do things like design a schema, write performant queries, and review a query plan to figure out why something is slow. I'm starting to understand that you can use a LLM to both do things and teach you. I say that as somebody who definitely has learned by struggling, but realizes that struggling is not the most efficient way to learn. If I want to keep up, I have to adapt, not just by learning how to use tools that are powered by LLMs, but by changing how I learn, how I work, and how I view my role.