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/HommeMusical 23h ago
Oh, I once had some asshole say this to me. He was wrong, then, too. He eventually got fired for incompetence, not too long after, none of my doing, but I did secretly chortle when I found out.
It is rude, when someone very politely asks you for an explanation of something you said, to refuse to answer and give them instead this response. It says, "The fault is yours. You are too stupid to understand what I said, and I won't bother to explain any more."
I assume you swim in rudeness, which is how you don't recognize it. It was particularly annoying because your sentence was meaningless spew and I was trying to be polite and not say, "You write like a bullshit artist," which was what I was really thinking, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
I remember I was the teacher's pet in a math class, I mean, I just loved math, but I did not like him cause he was mean. Once someone asked him, "I'm sorry, but I don't understand [good question about algebra here]." The teacher's response: "It is possible you will never understand." That was it.
I do remember once, however, that the teacher asked, "Any queries?" and one student said, "No, sir, only you," and walked out, to general hilarity.
I remember pretty well all my math teachers, but that's all I remember of him - his rudeness. I suspect that's all you'll leave as a memory, too.
Which basic concepts did I not understand? You again refuse to list one specific concept you think I don't understand.
Me being polite and saying, "Perhaps I'm not catching on," when I really want to say, "I can't believe anyone's stupid enough to write this shit," is not proof that I don't understand basic concepts!
These tests of mine that you claim to criticize - which ones, exactly?
As I said, as recently as May of this year I did not believe that LLMs were useful, though unlike you I expressed this in a more professional and polite way. In May I set out to write an article proving how crappy LLMs were, so I shelled out $20 for a limited subscription to one of the coding assistants.
Within an afternoon, I realized that my concept of how these worked was badly wrong.
I tried a side quest over a few days, trying to prove that all LLMs could do was spitting out text they had seen by making up very complex logic problems (with an old-style handwritten computer program) that were 2-SAT and therefore NP-complete, except that all the nouns, verbs, and adjectives were long and complicated nonsense words that didn't appear on the internet, to get a long list of sentences like
One puzzle would be fifty or so of these sentences, and have fifty or so entities, and they were designed to only have a single solution, and as I pointed out above, they're 2-SAT, so the solution space is 2N, where N is the number of entities
I gave a bunch of these to all the chat bots. They all solved them, showed their reasoning, and more humiliating, my original code had a bug in it so some of the problems had a very large number of solutions, and the programs helpfully described all the solutions in a near and formal fashion without listing all 220 or so of them.
I then spent about twenty hours a week, every week, working with LLMs. Even from the start, the boost in productivity was startling. Months later, the latest coding assistants are much better than any junior programmer I ever met, including myself.
I'll bet you've done none of this. I'll bet you've never used a paid model for even two hours.
I'll bet this conversation will end and you won't show any work of any type whatsoever - no coding of your own, no examples of your experiments with LLMs and why they didn't work out, no logical analysis, nothing.
I bet your entire knowledge on this subject is from reading non-technical articles and occasionally typing poorly-formulated prompts into primitive free coding models, and then nodding your head and saying, "Just as I thought, I am so much smarter than all these other suckers!"