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by DonsDiscountGas 18 days ago
> Why ask AI to write its output in a dynamic language with relatively slow execution (i.e., Python)?

So that it's easy for humans to review it. Same reason as ever. Obviously Python isn't always the correct choice, but the overlap with cases where vibe coding is the correct choice is pretty high.

Also wtf is Pinyin?

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> Also wtf is Pinyin?

From the article:

> Many people don’t realize this, but children in China first learn Latin characters, which they use to spell out Chinese phonetically, using a system called “pinyin.” They then use their knowledge of Latin characters to learn Chinese characters, whose pronunciation isn’t obvious from the characters themselves.

I was about to guess that Pinyin was yet another Python package manager, that you have to install with pipx