Category Archives: Editorial

The Era of Cloned Humans

Posted on January 27, 2025 by way0utwest

AI-technologies are evolving at an alarming rate. The ability of LLMs to produce drafts, review work, even write some code continues to improve to the point where junior level workers are in danger of having less opportunity than in the … Continue reading →

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Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?

Posted on January 24, 2025 by way0utwest

The short answer is of course, most of us can learn and improve our skills to become better developers, engineers, DBAs, etc. While we might not be able to become the 10x engineer that many aspire to be, we can … Continue reading →

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The AI Budget Assistant

Posted on January 22, 2025 by way0utwest

I saw this article about AI helping IT leaders plan their budgets, and I had visions of certain departments getting cut, especially data-related ones. My concern is that a lot of what a DBA does can be acting as insurance … Continue reading →

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The Types of Changes

Posted on January 17, 2025 by way0utwest

I would guess that most of you reading this piece are database professionals in some sense. Either you work on databases as a developer of some sort (app and/or database) or manage them as a DBA or sysadmin. In working … Continue reading →

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