If you have any reasonable understanding of SQL, I guarantee you could brush up on it and write it yourself in less than a couple of hours unless you're trying to do something very complex
SQL is absolutely trivial to write by hand
You might also consider that you may be over-indexing on your own capabilities rather than evaluating the LLM’s capabilities.
Lets say an llm is only 25% as good as you but is 10% the cost. Surely you’d acknowledge there may be tasks that are better outsourced to the llm than to you, strictly from an ROI perspective?
It seems like your claim is that since you’re better than LLMs, LLMs are useless. But I think you need to consider the broader market for LLMs, even if you aren’t the target customer.
However, whether SQL is "trivial to write by hand" very much depends on exactly what you are trying to do with it.
Think of it as managing cognitive load. Wandering off to relearn SQL boilerplate is a distraction from my medium-term goal.
edit: I also believe I'm less likely to get a really dumb 'gotcha' if I start from the LLM rather than cobbling together knowledge from some random docs.