I had yesterday a 1-on-1 with my manager (the only backend dev) and he wants that I, the only frontend developer, creates the needed SQL tables via API calls. What the hell is this company.

I don't even have access to the production data nor have access to the database.

wat, you can create tables using API calls? why? what? how is that secured? can anyone? what? what about migrations in the future? I never heard anything this dumb before... Is he a vibe coder?

@Hazarth Honestly, I would be able to answer that IF HE PUSHES HIS CODE TO THE REPO REMOTELY. He also wanted to spin up a testing environment with their own database etc on each git branch. We have 2 devs in total and not even a testing department.

But judging the code I can see that is older than my time at that company, yes... yes, it is AI assisted judging by the total comments alone.

Tell him the tale of Bobby Tables.
He will shit a brick and stop asking for dumb front-end DDL statements, or you know who will get tango-down'd soon enough.

Well that's nice you don't even need a DB admin or install/setup a DBM client.
And it handles indexes for you like a champ. I wish i could work with that kind of talent.

Without sarcasm this doesn't have to be a security issue. Can even by a security layer as it limits direct database access. In hardened environments the service should usually not have permissions to create/alter/drop tables though.