Why Prisma Feels Like Magic Until It Doesn't
I spent three days debugging a database query that wasn't actually wrong. The Prisma client was fine. The schema was fine. But I'd set up my monorepo wrong, and no error message was going to tell me that. Prisma is genuinely good at what it does—it took me from "staring at SQL docs for an hour" to "writing type-safe database queries without breaking a sweat." But the reason so many tutorials exist for Prisma + Next.js + monorepos is because the combination has sharp edges. Not design flaws. Just places where you need to know the shape of the thing before you ship it.