If AI writes your code, why use Python?

Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? by tofuahdude on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:30PM (#48111448)

I was on team dynamic for a long time and have moved to team static.

For any long-lived code base, dynamic piles up invisible problems over time.

It's great for short-lived throwaway stuff, but as soon as you know you'll be maintaining a large code base for a long time, the "easier" part of dynamic actually becomes harder than just spelling stuff out.

It's obviously a trade-off and not everyone agrees, but that's my personal experience having run large eng teams for both types.

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Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? by slashdev on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:25AM (#48122366)

This is exactly my experience as well.

If it were up to me, I'd start out by using the AI to port a Python web app to a compiled language like Go. Then we could maintain that going forward instead.

In reality, a Python code base is maintained by Python programmers, most of whom would vote against such a change.

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