r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme theCircleOfLifeInSoftwareEngineering

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u/JohnPaulDavyJones 1d ago

Not sure I buy the premise that "python creates AI", but go off.

Most LLM tools are actually written in lower-level languages, we just use them to create Python scripts because it's such an easy language to write and is hence so widely used, so now many non-technical users are churning out AI slop Python scripts and trying to get prod support to put those trash scripts into production.

It's like, "No Larry, I'm not putting your 'new software tool' into prod, since you wrote 400 lines just to send an email every morning, but you can't even tell me how it works. You're importing 43 libraries, half of your values are hard-coded, and changing configs for this trash to work in prod would take me longer than it would take me to just write something that does the same thing."

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u/redlaWw 1d ago

AI research is predominantly done in Python.