How to spot AI slop, discovered the hard way, over four hundred entries, in a dressing gown, at two in the morning, and ending in a place I did not care for.
A Better Fire Alarm Is Still a Fire
A better fire alarm is still a fire. Many SQL Server incidents I get called about were preventable with controls already available in the client’s environment. Here is the audit I wish had been run before the pager rang, complete with the T-SQL.
They Finished the AI Training. Eleven Days Later, the Job Was Gone
An anonymous interview with a database professional who did everything the company asked. There is no lesson at the end of this one. I looked for one. AI Training
Nine Unusual Ways My Clients Use AI With SQL Server
Everyone writes about AI generating queries. Nobody writes about the strange jobs it is actually doing inside real database teams. These are nine of them, and I helped build every one.
AI Training at Work: Nobody Is Coming
Everyone is waiting for AI training at work. It took me a hundred conversations to understand what they are actually waiting for, and it is not a course.
AI Mistakes at Work: Who Never Gets Fooled
Who catches AI mistakes at work? Not the smartest person in the room. It has never once been the smartest person in the room.
AI Code Review Bottleneck: Nobody Owns It
Everybody agrees the AI code review bottleneck is real. Then go look at the org chart.