am i automating myself out of a job? writing a lot of SQL and upper management asks for the code directly 🥵 obviously want to deliver but i feel like i’m losing my power.

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Write yourself into your next role by creating value props for the code you write. This does x and x, y and x roles/people will benefit from it to do x sort of tasks faster, better, more accurately, etc.
Present your code as part of a greater plan.
Keep a catalog of what you create and how it drives value. Even better if you can roughly quantify benefits (x work hours, x dollars, x risks mitigated).

Always gotta be selling.

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upper management can use your code but cannot troubleshoot it themselves

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And to add to those points - they also can’t build out the functionality.

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….is your code not already in a company repo? For anything not super trivial?

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Thicken the plot. Create minor re-occurring issues within the code only you know how to fix/where to look to fix.

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And then get fired for being incompetent.

If you write well documented tight code that solves the problem there is always a next role. Write shit and you'll be shit out of luck looking fir your next job.

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What’s exactly question here? Isn’t code written by one individual becomes available to many others in the same team? I’m sure you have servers where everything resides. And if your SQL isn’t used by your firm then who are you writing it for?

Provide your code and sample data set and then remove indices 😈

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