alchemy-utils 0.1a0
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- simonwillison.net
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Shows the exact shape of prompt that turns a coding into a same-morning library prototype, including the reference-repo and TDD scaffolding that made it converge in few follow-ups.
“I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like.”
“Do a research spike to see what it would take to build a library with the same core API as SQLite-utils - in particular the insert and upsert and insert_all and upsert_all and create and update methods, and the table introspection stuff - but backed by SQLalchemy so it works for multiple database engines”
“It took very few follow-up prompts to produce this project in a state good enough to release as an alpha.”
“That one took nearly an hour the first time I ran it, so I had Codex optimize it and got it down to around 35 seconds.”
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