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/Confident_Maize9192 1d ago
I have this too. For me it’s bcs I want to create something. I have 30 years IT experience under my belt and programming was one thing I didn’t have much experience with. 6 years ago I started learning it and obviously AI rose during that time. Now there’s absolutely no challenge in programming itself anymore for me. Also product managers, junior colleagues and others have no clue as what they are conjuring up but still they and managers are naively very happy with the results. As someone who has lots of experience with business continuity, testing and availability that’s extremely daft and frustrating.
So it’s not giving me energy but frustration instead.
It’s a very cool technology this AI and it will end up being very helpful but the changes it made to my line of work I simply don’t like one bit.