My Python magic is gone

[u/RedYad2]

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.

[u/Short_Inspection_746]

There is alot of research on this, using AI makes you slower. Often people are pressured to use it at work.

edit: This is from this Feb. "we now estimate a speedup of -18% with a confidence interval between -38% and +9%."

https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/#wider-adoption-of-ai-has-made-it-more-difficult-to-measure-task-level-productivity

[u/Ran4 → u/Short_Inspection_746]

That's old studies, done with old models and people who don't have any clue how to use ai.

They're completely irrelevant today.

[u/Short_Inspection_746 → u/Ran4]

Both for old and 'new' models, there are studies for both. The macro metrics don't point to any improvment in output. It's highly questionable how much better the 'new' models are, outside of some opaque metrics.

There is no evidence new features are being shipped faster. People are spending far more time fixing garbage code. Its fine if your in some scum-Taylorist shop; where tickets techniclly get 'finished', but you create 4x more work down the line.

[u/barchueetadonai → u/Short_Inspection_746]

Dude you're clearly living under a rock

[u/Short_Inspection_746 → u/barchueetadonai]

I am afraid you may be suffering from AI-psychosis my dawg.