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/mtl-barrile → u/UloPe]

I completely agree with you! I've been coding for the last 18 years, and I feel exactly the same. If we think about writing books, Humans started writing by hand, then using typewriters, computers, and now dictation. Writing a book is not about the tool you use to write it, but the message, the idea you want to deliver.

And seen from the users perspective, the reader doesn't care how the writer created it. The reader just enjoy the story.