I Use Python Because Claude Was Trained On It. We Are Not The Same
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The Gus Fring 'We are not the same' meme template: Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring from Breaking Bad, in a grey suit and glasses, solemnly adjusting his tie against a dark teal background. Three white caption blocks read: 'YOU USE PYTHON BECAUSE YOU LIKE THE LANGUAGE' / 'I USE PYTHON BECAUSE CLAUDE WAS TRAINED ON IT A LOT' / 'WE ARE NOT THE SAME.' The joke captures a genuine shift in language selection criteria for the LLM era: ergonomics and personal taste matter less than how well your coding assistant autocompletes the stack, so devs rationally converge on whatever Python/JS-heavy corpus the models know best
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Language selection criteria, 2026 edition: not type safety, not performance - token frequency in the pretraining corpus
Python won the architecture review by having the lowest perplexity.
ofc I'm better and enjoy what I do. Comment deleted