AI read the procedure that everybody walks past. Nine hundred lines, no comments, one very old warning at the top.
Claude on SQL Server is safe when production gives it eyes and nothing else. This post splits the loop into three stages: start this week with a read-only login, make it a daily habit with a past cases library, then run it on a schedule with a second opinion. I tested the login on SQL Server 2025.
AI interview questions test whether you can explain something out loud. Cardinal can produce an answer. Cardinal cannot be asked.
Fiction. The understudy is the person paid to stay ready. Every night a system settles millions of payments in seconds. Four times a year one person does the same work by hand, on paper, against the clock, so that the ability to do it still exists somewhere in the building.
AI in production without a second pair of eyes is a quick way to lose a table. Cardinal was going to add the WHERE clause. Eventually.