Three years ago, provisioning a test database at work meant a full ticket cycle with my name on the approval. Last week I watched an analyst spin one up in under a minute using an AI agent, no ticket, no wait.
I did not expect database administration to be the first place I saw agents take over.
A new Databricks report says AI agents now create 80 percent of new databases and 97 percent of test branches industry wide, up from near zero two years ago.
I used to be the checkpoint for that process. Now I am not the checkpoint, I am the one deciding what the agent should never be allowed to touch without a human looking first.
The job did not disappear. It moved somewhere higher up the stack.
If you work near data infrastructure, has your role moved up the stack too, or is it still mostly the old work?
