> I wish Python would improve to bridge the gaps between pydantic and dataclasses, so that we don't have to rely on pydantic. It's too foundational a piece to not be part of the core python anymore
I agree on the first part, but Pydantic is not important to Python. It's important to a lot of people, but it's absolutely unnecessary.
its the ideal way to do structured outputs with LLMs and Python has become the default language for AI applications. I would wager that structured outputs are probably the no.1 usecase in AL applications