Any LLM would outperform the DBA we had in our first start-up. This guy was a buddy of the co-founder and was parachuted into the top paying IC role out of about 25 developers.
His "achievements" included dropping the production database by messing with the backup processes, insisting on very wide tables rather than smaller tables with joins since "they're easier to maintain", and giving out full admin rights to junior devs who subsequently went on to develop their own "black data mart" which was way way better than the production version.
Sigh, and to make things worse, this DBA guy managed to leverage his "experience" into a Principal Data Architect role at a major consulting company after the start-up predictably imploded.
His "achievements" included dropping the production database by messing with the backup processes, insisting on very wide tables rather than smaller tables with joins since "they're easier to maintain", and giving out full admin rights to junior devs who subsequently went on to develop their own "black data mart" which was way way better than the production version.
Sigh, and to make things worse, this DBA guy managed to leverage his "experience" into a Principal Data Architect role at a major consulting company after the start-up predictably imploded.