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“I started to code more in Python around 6 months ago. Why? Because of AI, obviously. It’s clear (to me) that big money opportunities are all over AI these days. And guess what’s the de facto programming language for AI? Yep, that sneaky one.”

Why is that?

Why Python for AI?

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Because you get first class support in many AI libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow and so on ... Most of these libraries can be used from other programming languages too, but it is easier to find good documentation and examples for Python.

Possibly because many available LLMs run your Python code in a sandbox, which means less friction for vibe coders, or it may be a contributing factor at the very least.

> Because many available LLMs run your Python code in a sandbox, which means less friction for vibe coders.

This is false, a lot of non "vibe coders" are using Python for AI because of PyTorch and a many other AI libraries have first class Python support.

How do you know that it is not the reason or not ONE of the reasons? Seems pretty reasonable to me to use ChatGPT, Claude, or whichever one supports it.

I am pretty sure some people (maybe this individual, too) may be using Python because their scripts can be executed in a sandbox on one of these websites.

Heck, if it was as good at Factor or Forth as it is at Python, I would be writing more of them, too.

In any case, you cannot claim that it is not one of the reasons. Can you?

I read your initial message, now edited, as this is THE reason. Of course it can be one of the reasons for which the author chose Python.

Also the vibe coding part gave me the impression that you were implying that people that use/chose Python for AI are all vibe coders which is again false. Sorry if I misunderstood you, but this is what I got from your initial message.

No worries. I think there was a misunderstanding because even with my original message, I did not intend to suggest that people who use or choose Python for AI are all vibe coders, or at least I didn't think I did hint at that.

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