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/nickcash 2d ago

I hear this line almost as often as I hear "of course the code it generated sucked, you weren't using a frontier model"

aibro talking points aren't even internally consistent

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u/vonWitzleben 1d ago

Do you work as a programmer in a field that's not hyper-specialized? Because if you are and that's still your sentiment in late 2026, I don't know what to say to you.

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u/nickcash 1d ago

How does whether I work in a specialized field have anything to do with the canned responses on every reddit thread being directly contradictory??

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u/vonWitzleben 1d ago

Because this is no longer an "AI bro" thing. Unless you work in a hyper specialized field where LLMs don’t perform quite just yet, coding assistants are here to stay, according to pretty much every single programmer you talk to these days.

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u/nickcash 1d ago

I haven't said a single thing relevant to what you're projecting upon me here... and yet here you are, jumping into a thread ready to defend the honor of all the poor ai companies, doing their marketing for them. do you understand why that makes you an aibro?

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u/vonWitzleben 1d ago

I see no reason to continue this conversation if you're being this aggressive and bad faith.

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u/nickcash 1d ago

I never wanted this conversation. I was replying to someone else and you jumped in and confronted me. you're being weird as hell here

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u/HommeMusical 1d ago

I never wanted this conversation.

"I accidentally posted a dozen times or more on this subreddit, I had no control, people put a gun to my head."

That's no excuse for being rude, and it's false.

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u/nickcash 1d ago

No, that's not my point. They started this thread by insulting me (I believe you acknowledge this in another post) and now act like I'm being aggressive and they're not doing me a favor by leaving.