FastAPI
also referred to as: fast api
4 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2025 by Samuel Colvin · said 17 times in 8 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Eugene Yan (5), Sujay Jayakar (4), Samuel Colvin (2), Jeremy Howard (2), Malte Ubl (1), Jason Liu (1), Ankur Goyal (1)
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2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex
- Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
- Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
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2024 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
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Feb 6, 2025 neutral
Colvin: Sebastián Ramírez originally added JSON Schema to Pydantic for OpenAPI
“So I originally didn't implement JSON Schema inside Pydantic and then Sebastian, Sebastian Ramirez, FastAPI came along and like the first I ever heard of him was over a weekend. I got like 50 emails from him or 50 like emails as he was committing to Pydantic a…”
Feb 6, 2025 positive
Colvin: Pydantic and FastAPI normalized Python type-hint schemas
“Back in 2017, when I first started it, the like different thing it was doing was using type int to define your schema. That was controversial at the time. It was like genuinely disapproved of by some people. I think the success of Pydantic and libraries like f…”
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Strong library abstractions prevent AI models from breaking backend wiring
“Models, you know, when given the full flexibility of fast API and doing SSE and wiring everything from scratch. It just couldn't help, but messed it up. So having like kind of strong life, like choosing good libraries that have strong abstractions is like, and…”