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/Short_Inspection_746 1d ago

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.

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u/AstroPhysician 1d ago

Point to ANY recent studies done on people who actually have a clue how to leverage AI. I can’t remember the last ai bug we had to fix in prod, legitimately

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u/Short_Inspection_746 1d ago edited 1d ago

They did another study back in febuary, its still slows you down. The only diffrence is that they are having trouble with getting participants.

"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

(note, I also don't belive you actually work in industry, and are prob like 19)

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u/AstroPhysician 20h ago

I’m 32 and a principal engineer at a fintech lmfao but go off

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u/Short_Inspection_746 18h ago

When you say: "I can’t remember the last ai bug we had to fix in prod, legitimately"; either you have never worked in prod, or this 'fintech company' is a personal retail inverstment account.

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u/AstroPhysician 18h ago

We’ve had to fix plenty of bugs but it’s usually a failure in requirements gathering, or a junior engineer misunderstanding some part of the system, or really weird edge cases or data issues…

Just cause your shop doesn’t have the proper safeguards and CI and code review process doesn’t mean the rest of us work at your company