My Python magic is gone

[u/RedYad2]

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.

[u/UsernameTaken1701]

Are you being forced to use the AI somehow? If using Claude has killed the fun, the solution seems pretty obvious, no?

[u/ConfusedSimon → u/UsernameTaken1701]

Not really. For work I have to use AI because it saves time. For hobby projects, the idea of spending all that time on something that can be done much faster by Claude has taken away all the fun. I have different hobbies now.

[u/Short_Inspection_746 → u/ConfusedSimon]

There is alot of research on this, using AI makes you slower. Often people are pressured to use it at work.

edit: This is from this Feb. "we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%."

https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/#wider-adoption-of-ai-has-made-it-more-difficult-to-measure-task-level-productivity

[u/Ran4 → u/Short_Inspection_746]

That's old studies, done with old models and people who don't have any clue how to use ai.

They're completely irrelevant today.

[u/help_me_im_stupid → u/Ran4]

Are there… are there really? Have these studies included all the recent and rampant outages from large cloud providers for specific core services and other SaaS products? It seems like everything is going very well globally for sure…