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I am one of those older developers who remember the database-first approach.  I also used LINQ back in the day to load my POCO objects.  Then, in stepped Entity Framework, to which I was like "hey this is awesome".  Then, in steps the concept of code-first, which left me going "why?"  But, I decided to give it a go and it was a great learning experience, as I found my code to be more testable as I could mock the data object, but quickly learned that updating the data model in future releases was troublesome. I then learned that migrations were one of the most important things to understand in order to be truly successful with code-first.  But, one of the biggest gains was I did not need to couple to a repository ...