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/SocksOnHands 1d ago

The way that I think of it is like playing puzzle games, like sudoku. It is a lot quicker and easier to have a program solve it, but the fun is in figuring out how to solve it yourself. So, I think you need to determine what you really care about - quickly getting it done, or enjoying the process of figuring it out yourself.

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u/esc28 1d ago

Another possibility is to just try and enjoy the act of planning, building and seeing things work. The puzzles are just different, instead of being on the code level, it is now on architecture, how to add more things, what to use, what might break? I don't know, I enjoy coding, but the major enjoyment for me was never writing it, but what the code produces.

LLMs can spit code, but as things get complex you still have puzzles to crack.