handcrafted writing all the way, no trace of ai generated unaudited stuff whatsoever; followed production level best practices, like v1, v2 versioning; modern and practical async usage everywhere; introduction to the repository pattern; the python generic, async and testing stuff is kinda advanced, but really encourages and pushes learner to get into these areas of the language.
it would be nicer if links are provide on some of the crucial concepts and keywords, make it more beginner friendly.
and finally, I really liked the alchemist themed example project. And I think mike bayer said it somewhere in a video, that the Alchemy metaphor is embedded into the philosophy of sqlalchemy. think about the querying method chaining or other things, it's like doing alchemy… :)))
sorry for the long comment. thanks, Piotr, for this fantastic article. love the banner arts btw. <3