--- title: What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day | daily.dev description: A veteran DBA asks an AI to describe a typical day in the role, then compares it to his real Tuesday full of Wi-Fi complaints, sysadmin requests, vendor... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-ai-thinks-a-dba-does-all-day-2kec4cr8c twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day | daily.dev og:description: A veteran DBA asks an AI to describe a typical day in the role, then compares it to his real Tuesday full of Wi-Fi complaints, sysadmin requests, vendor... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-ai-thinks-a-dba-does-all-day-2kec4cr8c og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2KEc4cr8c.png og:image:alt: What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What AI Thinks a DBA Does All Day **[SQL Authority](https://daily.dev/sources/sql-authority)** · 6 min read · 15 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A veteran DBA asks an AI to describe a typical day in the role, then compares it to his real Tuesday full of Wi-Fi complaints, sysadmin requests, vendor demands, and printer duty. The AI's version, drawn from job postings and training material, is accurate to documentation but misses everything undocumented - the tacit knowledge, team politics, and informal responsibilities that make up the actual job. When he feeds his real day back into the AI to generate a job posting, it sanitizes everything into corporate language, again omitting the printer. The piece reflects on how invisible, undocumented labor becomes invisible to AI and to HR systems alike, urging readers to document the 'expensive parts' of their jobs that never get written down. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ajaychoudhary80** · 3 upvotes > The gap between a job description and the actual job is exactly where tacit knowledge lives. **@deepjoshi\_dev** · 0 upvotes > Sounds like a hassle. **@yosinhonbotirov** · 0 upvotes > o thet is in teresting **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > AI may get the title right, but the printer has clearly joined the DBA team without completing onboarding ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [\[Video\] A Very Special Episode of Office Hours](https://daily.dev/posts/video-a-very-special-episode-of-office-hours-e4kt5jqp6) · Brent Ozar · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [They Finished the AI Training. Eleven Days Later, the Job Was Gone](https://daily.dev/posts/they-finished-the-ai-training-eleven-days-later-the-job-was-gone-5111psn0g) · SQL Authority · 9 upvotes · 0 comments - [Your DBA Isn’t Being Automated. 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