My 14-Year Journey Away from ORMs - How I Built pGenie, the SQL-First Postgres Code Generator

Hi, I’m Nikita Volkov - architect, consultant, and the author of hasql , one of the two main PostgreSQL drivers in Haskell used in major production projects like PostgREST and IHP. After 25 years in IT and more late-night schema-drift fires than I care to count, I open-sourced something I wish had existed a decade ago: pGenie . Following is the story of how I went from shipping a popular ORM in…