{
  "id": 3027392,
  "title": "Your Data Structure Is Too Flexible",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/your-data-structure-is-too-flexible",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T13:19:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/devasservice/your-data-structure-is-too-flexible-4fb8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Python makes it easy to pass data around as dicts, nested JSON blobs, and “whatever the client sent”. That flexibility is useful when you own the shape. It gets expensive when the data crosses a trust boundary - an HTTP body, a webhook, a file from another team - and you treat it like it already matches your assumptions. You may already know Pydantic . This article is not a tour of fields and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}