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People who don't already know it still need to learn it if they wanna manage LLMs writing it. Anything else is reckless. So the original point stands.

Agreed with that. As with writing SQL by hand you have to be very specific with instructing an LLM. There are many ways to get to a solution in SQL all present different tradeoffs and corner cases. I found that people that don't understand SQL and the basic of a given schema produce garbage both by hand and with LLMs

An LLM can respond to any online discussion about <x> is a good approach for solving a particular class of problems with LLMs can do <x> better than a human better than you.

> I've been writing SQL for over twenty years, and my experience is that LLMs have been better at writing it than I am for at least most of 2025

Wow, bad career choices?

I wouldn't think so, knowing SQL has been a benefit, and knowing how to use LLMs to write SQL even more so.