If AI writes your code, why use Python?
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If AI writes your code, why use Python?
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Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#2Bit off topic but why in the world are people still posting on medium? The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn’t even finish reading this article before a full screen popup literally blocked the sentence I was reading.
Is there some incentive I’m not seeing?
Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#3I assume this is why things like PyO3 are popping up? If so, sort of a fascinating way to compartmentalize new rust code into legacy .py code in lieu of a refactor, or at least, a way to do a staggered refactor and eat the elephant in bites :)
Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#4Also easier to ship a binary like a cli
Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#51) I still have to comprehend it.
2) The corpus for the sort of applications I build is likely larger for Python than it is for C++ and Rust. Bigger corpus == more training data == better generated code.
3) The bottleneck in the applications I run aren't in the execution of the code; they're in the database/network latency.
4) I don't get anything extra for pushing Rust or C++ over Python.
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#6This post resonates. I recently built a little web service to scratch an itch I've been having and after discussing the options with Claude we settled on Go, and honestly it's been fantastic. Highly performant, native threading, dead simple to deploy with containers. And I don't even know how to read or write Go.
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#71) I still have to comprehend it. 2) The corpus for the sort of applications I build is likely larger for Python than it is for C++ and Rust. Bigger corpus == more training data == better generated code. 3) The bottleneck in the applications I run aren't in the execution of the code; they're in the database/network latency. 4) I don't get anything extra for pushing Rust or C++ over Python.
If all the libraries are rust as the article claims having the top layer in Python probably makes even less difference.
I tend to agree with the article’s statement about the value of the test code though, may even have been true before LLM code took over.
Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#8Bit off topic but why in the world are people still posting on medium? The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn’t even finish reading this article before a full screen popup literally blocked the sentence I was reading. Is there some incentive I’m not seeing?
It seems like it's just the latest evolution of the writer-friendly blogging platform; easier than Wordpress to package into a newsletter, and also easier to monetize with a paid tier.
Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#9For me, whether it's AI or my own handcrafted artisanal code, the choice of language comes down to what has the least friction. This means I turn to vite/react for a lot of frontend requirements, and that the backend will be in nodejs or python, because those are easier for me to debug than writing an equivalent application in C++ or Rust.
Re: If AI writes your code, why use Python?
#10Bit off topic but why in the world are people still posting on medium? The reading experience is abhorrent; I couldn’t even finish reading this article before a full screen popup literally blocked the sentence I was reading. Is there some incentive I’m not seeing?
Yep, Medium was free and everyone donated content... then it put up reading paywalls and conned everyone, I'm also surprised when I see people writing on there.