What We've Learned Building an AI DBA

Most people here are either trying to build or are thinking about buying. We spent the last 7 months building an AI DBA that runs against real production PostgreSQL and MySQL fleets, and this talk is about what we’ve learned: the handful of things it does genuinely well, exactly how we engineered it to do them, and the failure modes that will bite anyone attempting the same. We’ll walk through real incidents and pull out the design decisions behind each. Takeaways you can apply to your own agent on Monday.