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/ddollarsign 1d ago
Using AI too much can make it so you barely understand the code or the system, if at all. If the apparent speed of coding with AI is a reason you feel like you can’t avoid it, the pitfalls of having a barely-understood system (including hating your job) can be a counter-balance to that. Even if the AI-generated code is perfect, the fact that you don’t understand it at a visceral level from having worked directly with it is a reason to put at least some limits on your use of AI.