Will trends in ORM eventually kill the DBAs? [closed]

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In our office we have a DB team who does all the database definitions from the ground up. That w开发者_开发知识库ould include all the tables, indexes, SPs, etc. They also do some policies where certain users can only access certain SPs.

I see switching to Entity Framework or Hybernate is like us developers doing the stuffs that DBAs are doing already. The code first philosophy is practically taking away the job from DBAs and to make matters worst is that the trend with ORMs is moving out of the SP paradigm using adhoc queries.

I must be missing something. What will be the role of the DBAs within the ORM approach?

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Eventually profiling will reveal that to the best performance you need, you will need to optimize at the database level, and this includes hand crafted queries and indexes that require the need of a DBA.