Dev: top AI agents do more backup and verification on DB migrations than 99.99% of engineers
tristanbob · x · 2026-10-20
Developer tristanbob notes that asking a top-tier AI agent to migrate a database yields more pre- and post-migration backup and verification steps than 99.99% of human DevOps engineers would perform — a positive datapoint on agent reliability in high-stakes ops tasks.
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