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ORMs/ODMs provide great support and abstractions for developers
They are not the native language of agentic AI
Raw queries are trained 100x+ more than standard ORMs
Using raw queries at the data access optimizes for AI coding
Returning some sort of object mapped to the data optimizes for type safety and devs

3 merged pull requests
8 closed issues
at one point got to 0 PR’s and 1 enhancement request
Now back to 2 issues and 1 PR, but activity means it’s still alive and being used. so cool
Check out changelog for all mods
A lot of changes around supporting mypy
- I’ve decided to NOT have the examples be fully --strict as I find it reduces readability
  - See tox.ini for explanation
- But src is --strict clean now, so user tests can be --strict clean.

Michael #3: Dataclass Wizard

Brian #4: SQLiteo - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people”

Adam Hill
This is a fun tool, built by someone I trust.
That trust part is something I’m thinking about a lot in these days of dev+agent built tools
Some notes on my thoughts when evaluating
- I know mac rules around installing .dmg files not from the apple store are picky.
  - And I like that
- But I’m ok with the override when something comes from a dev I trust
- The contributors are all Adam
  - I’m still not sure how I feel about letting agents do commits in repos
- There’s “AGENTS” folder and markdown files in the project for agents, so Ad

Extras

Michael:

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IBM Crashes 11% in 4 Hours - $24 Billion Wiped Out After Anthropic's Claude Code Threatens the Entire COBOL Consulting Industry
Loving my 40” ultrawide monitor more every day
Updatest for updating all the mac things
Ice has Thawed out (mac menubar app)

#471 The ORM pattern of 2026?

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