Comment by frollogaston
8 hours ago
It was kinda debatable until people started Claude coding everything. Even before, I would've said every SWE should just know SQL, it's not much buy-in to understand the foundation of like your entire backend. Also I'm not a DBA if that's what you meant.
Leaning SQL is arguably less dev work over the long run than learning an ORM and then learning how it works so you can fix performance issues.
Yep, there have been extended periods of time where my entire job title might as well have been "ORM remover" because they backed themselves into a corner
I have never seen a dev and we never would hire a dev that doesn’t know SQL and yet we still use ORM for each and every app we develop.