Why DBAs are right to be skeptical of AI — and where they’re wrong

Over those three decades, I’ve watched it pick up hot standby replication, logical replication, asynchronous IO, just-in-time compilation, and dozens of other features built for enterprise workloads. Every one of them solved a real problem and raised the floor on what a DBA needs to know just to do the job well. I don’t think most people outside this world fully register how much that floor has risen.