Comment by briandw

I've come to a similar conclusion. One example is how much easier it is to put an interface on top of sqlite. I've been burned badly with the hidden details of ORM s. ORMs are the sirens call of getting rid of all that boiler plate code when encoding and decoding objects into a db. However this abstraction breaks in many hidden ways. Lazy loading details, in-memory state vs db mismatch, cascading details, etc all have unexpected problems that can be hard to predict. Using an LLM to do the grunt work lets you easily see and reason about all the details. You don't have to guess about what's happening and you can make your own choices.