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title: "I Almost Did Not Publish This Book"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-almost-did-not-publish-this-book-ud0ypolsd
source_url: https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2026/06/11/i-almost-did-not-publish-this-book
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source: "SQL Authority"
published: 2026-06-11T12:16:18.042Z
updated: 2026-06-11T12:16:37.935Z
tags: ["ai", "career"]
reading_time: 6
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# I Almost Did Not Publish This Book

**[SQL Authority](https://daily.dev/sources/sql-authority)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Pinal Dave, a SQL expert with 25 years of experience, reflects on the emotional and professional impact of AI on developers. He describes the grief of watching a machine instantly perform tasks he once found meaningful, and how that experience led him to write a book of 30 essays exploring questions about expertise, struggle, judgment, and identity in the age of AI. The book, titled 'AI: Nobody's in There. But we're still in here.', is available on Amazon, though all essays are also free on his blog.

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