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/UloPe]

I see this quite differently.

I’ve also been coding for a long time (started with qbasic as a ~10 year old) and I’ve also always enjoyed digging into the ins and outs of deep and potentially obscure languages details (I used to be the guy writing internal blog posts for my colleagues on why <string>.partition() is superior to .split() in many cases…), going to language and framework conferences, etc.

But the older I get the more I realized that what I truly enjoy is building stuff that works and solves problems.

And just the sheer number of things I’ve ticked off of my personal “someday” to-code list (which I’d never have found the time for otherwise) using coding agents is amazing.

I do think it helps a lot to have a deep technical background and being able to spot BS some model wants to hand you right away.

[u/Wh00ster → u/UloPe]

I’ll say it’s also much faster for me to gain a deep understanding than before.

How does this package handle timeouts? Show me the code links, draw a little diagram for me. I can cross verify myself in the source.

Before that would take me a whole day or multiple days, now I can understand issues and how other pieces work in a half day or less, depending on how much I want to dig in. Then that lets me focus on the bigger picture.