alt Hacker NewsWhy Python? Because I have written it for 10+ years, know how to debug it and I can smell it within 10 seconds of the agent writing code if it does something that is going to end in a huge foot gun. With any other language, not so much; I would need to relearn a lot. So I am going to be preferring python; where even with the speed that AI crams out code, I still feel somewhat in control. If I did this with Go or Rust, then it would feel more like "vibecoding" than AI assisted programming, just yolo the whole product.
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Exactly that. Plus I need to be able to make adjustments here and there without the whole thing collapsing on me.
If you know Rust inside and out (if, as one example in TFA, you co-wrote The Rust Programming Language!) then sure, why not Rust?
But if not, it would be unwise.
That said, I use AI to write small C utilities that compile and run on any Windows version starting with Vista (which neither Go nor Rust can do). Yet I'm not a C programmer; but I can read and adjust it when needed, and the whole thing does work.
This is what I experienced as well, I can smell BS from AI generated code right from few lines it wrote in Python, so that why I keep using Python for most of my projects.
I started writing rust in this agentic era and all my prior experience with other languages still carries over and helps me spot code smell and bad architecture.
I had to learn the memory safety bits because I had no idea “what’s right” but rest of it was smooth.
Syntax fades away, you get to focus on higher level stuff and end up exploring new pathways; give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised how much of your experience is transferable.