{
  "id": 728308,
  "title": "alchemy-utils 0.1a0",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/alchemy-utils-0-1a0",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-12T19:51:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/12/alchemy-utils/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like. This morning (literally a shower project) I tasked Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra with building a prototype: 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…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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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."
}