Database Development with AI in 2026


This seems like the appropriate first BrentOzar.com blog post in the year 2026, eh?

In the PollGab question queue for Office Hours, MyRobotOverlordAsks asked a question that merited a full blog post answer:

My company announced during some AI training that within the next 12 months we won’t be writing any of our own code. Instead, we’ll be babysitting agents. What’s your opinion on this from a DB dev / DBA POV? MSSQL Dev tends to lag, so I’d personally be surprised.

If this sounds completely alien to you, check out this blog post by developer Armin Ronacher. In it,