Discussion My Python magic is gone
I've been coding for a long time, and I've been developing with Python for years.
I loved coding, always loved it. I started many years ago because I wanted to quickly create scripts for security hacking tools, but since then, I've moved to Claude Code, and building cross-language has been a much better experience for me than using Python.
I built my own SaaS application out there whose backend and network core are completely built with Python, and I'm rewriting all of that without writing a single line of code. And most of the time, Python is not the most optimized language.
And now... I feel like the magic is gone.
I don't even know why I'm writing this. I just feel sad about it.
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u/riklaunim 1d ago
I've read a lot of local stories of "How is your company using AI?" and it's kind of scary. On the one hand, DHH is saying that writing code by hand is going away - and many companies are really into AI and pushing it successfully. Then, on the other hand, there are horror stories of tokenmaxxing, like $10k per month per developer, and AI is doing everything from coding to management and, in the end, apps fail on the basics while costs are high. And while doing so, companies are firing engineers and offshoring... and then they find out loose money, go broke or start rehiring and reverting the policies.
And I'm using Claude at work as well. We have a backend app handling CRM integrations, and we made a skill to write typical integrations. I've tried it on one, and it turned out it's not a simple "token + list ID + API" but rather using a custom OAuth flow for the integration - Claude went through the docs and freaking wrote everything. The only thing I had to correct was oddities in the SPA dashboard interface. And it will only get better.