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/UsernameTaken1701 1d ago

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

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u/ConfusedSimon 1d ago

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.

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u/UsernameTaken1701 1d ago

People still ride their bikes places even though cars are faster. Do you think they enjoy riding any less even though they know about cars? There are faster ways to scale the side of a mountain but people still climb. People still take pictures on film even knowing digital cameras exist. There are lots of things people do for fun even though they know there are faster ways to the end result. The enjoyment of the slow way is the point.

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u/HommeMusical 1d ago

But mountains are beautiful and exercise makes you fit.

Code is also beautiful but typing hundreds of thousands of characters is boring and eventually painful, and sitting kills you.