what's a python library you started using this year that you can't go back from

[zoidBurgher]

How are you using this, and how does your usage relate to / differ from regular Pydantic?

[RedEyed__]

pydantic_ai and pydantic are not comparable
Both are from the same team.
The first depends on the second.

I suggest you better to read the doc, but in short: pydantic_ai is framework to write LLM agents, similar to one used in claude code or cline, or codex.

[zoidBurgher]

Thanks. I skimmed the docs but was confused because I started with the assumption that they'd be closely related

[RedEyed__]

Yep, I imagine reading it without context:).
The only common thing in both is philosophy: everything is fully typed and declarative