database-migration

Covering the practical work of moving data and schemas between systems, versions, or platforms without breaking production. Content here spans migration planning, schema changes, data integrity checks, rollback strategies, and the high-stakes execution that comes with touching live infrastructure. You will also find explorations of how AI tools fit into migration workflows, acting as operators under human control rather than fully autonomous agents handling irreversible changes.

Human hand on a glowing control lever while an AI operates background switches in a command center.

ai-coding-tools, database-migration, devops, ai-operations, human-in-the-loop

The AI Wasn't Writing Code. It Was Running the Operation.

We pointed an AI coding CLI at a high-stakes database migration and treated it as the operator, not a code generator. What followed changed how we think about AI in infrastructure: the real frontier is leverage under human control, not autonomy.