This straw-mans ORMs by listing out what crappy ones do. I mean, accidental writes? You've either got a terrible ORM, no tests, or both.

Considering anybody with a noggin is going to be separating the SQL into it’s own module or whatever rather than just throwing straight inline SQL at your database wherever you it, you’re hardly less likely to have things like accidental writes, anyway. This is clearly someone who fell in love with Postgres, felt ORM abstractions that diluted the Postgres goodness were bad, and then did some mental experiments to consider all of the theoretical ways ORMs suck.

I gotta agree with you, total straw man. I haven't seen any of the issues this guy has with ORMs.