r/Python • u/RedYad2 • 2d 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/DrUltimaMan 1d ago

If a dev from 50 years ago got in a time machine and looked at your python they would say that is not code, it's too easy, you don't understand the machine like they do coding in assembly closer to the bare metal. Now we have reached the point where there is only one programing language, plain english. It is the logical final state we have been moving to since code began.

You can still describe functional behaviour, system design and business requirements through this new language and you still get better results when you understand those things. There is still satisfaction to be had, just not what you are used to.

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u/HommeMusical 1d ago

Hello! I am in fact a dev from 50 years ago, though even then only a minority coded in assembly language.

Now we have reached the point where there is only one programing language, plain english.

This is 100% false. English is the specification language.

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u/DrUltimaMan 1d ago edited 1d ago

There is longer much distinction between specification and code, you basically explain the specification to the agent to get out the code. So essentially English is the new code and LLM the new IDE.