I love using AI coding agents. But recently, I noticed a frustrating pattern when asking them to execute complex, multi-file refactors. I would ask an agent to modify a core utility function—let's call it validatesession. The agent would enthusiast...

!Image descriptionhttps://dev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/pmi7yw5ziylj60bg5m0t.pngSo there I was. A GSoC project I actually wanted to work on. Cloned the repo. Opened VS Code. Hundreds of files. Thousands of functions....

Python was the first language I ever wrote code in. I was a beginner. Ran some scripts. Never built anything meaningful. Then college started and I moved to Java and C++ — Python was forgotten. Years later, everyone's talking about ML and AI. Pytho...