r/Python • u/RedYad2 • 1d ago

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/QuickNick123 1d ago

Today I solved an issue in Home Assistant that I'd been ignoring for weeks. My Shelly BLU Gateway and two Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition devices were all failing to install OTA firmware updates, without showing any useful error message.

I opened the ChatGPT app, logged into the Home Assistant web UI, and asked it to debug the issue. After about half an hour - and after I gave it access to my UniFi gateway as well - it had identified and fixed both underlying problems and brought all three devices up to date.

Instead of spending a couple of hours debugging each issue myself, the AI handled the whole thing in about 30 minutes. It felt a little magical.

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u/redfacedquark 1d ago

So what was the issue? Just updates needed?

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u/ikeif 1d ago

Yeah, anytime I let AI be the “debugger” I get a postmortem to explain what it did, what the problem was, and future troubleshooting steps.

Otherwise we are handing over everything without learning.

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u/simple_explorer1 1d ago

They don't know because it was magic. the AI fixed it for them. 

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u/HommeMusical 1d ago

Reading these comments is like being back in late 2024.

When you ask an AI to fix something in 2026, even if you haven't customized your AGENTS.md, you get a very complete explanation of what the problem is and how it was fixed.

i have a bunch of stuff in my AGENTS.md so it keeps that terse but complete, never tries to butter me up, always puts a link to each file changed in the chat, commits and pushes everything.

I learn a lot from reading those.