Agentic Python Considered Harmful

Python won because it was easy. That was the whole trick. And now, in the age of agentic coding, that trick has stopped being an advantage — and quietly became a liability. First, Give Python Its Due Let me be fair, because Python earned its place honestly (even though I personally hate white-space as a separator). I’ve been here for all the hype cycles — I first coded in BASIC on a TRS-80 with 4K of RAM — and yes, I wrote a TON of perl.