Being upfront about AI-assistance or no AI-assistance doesn't mean shit. Whether AI was involved is independent of what they state and there's no real way to fully prove otherwise.

>The usual suspects are the GIL, interpretation, and dynamic typing. All three matter, but none of them is the real story. The real story is that Python is designed to be maximally dynamic -- you can monkey-patch methods at runtime, replace builtins, change a class's inheritance chain while instances exist -- and that design makes it fundamentally hard to optimize.

ok I guess the harder question is. Why isn't python as fast as javascript?

This story is strangely parallel to the software developer. Just as the knocker uppers stared at their own end... so do we. I wonder if they were in denial as well?

You're right. There's more skill in being a electrician than being a PM or designer. I was being generous.

>No, you can't infer that it "works." Only that it CAN work. The car may be poisoning you with carbon monoxide. Your rear brakes may have become disconnected (happened to me). The antilock braking system may have a faulty sensor that only fails at very low speed, leading to them engaging when making a normal stop, but also preventing the mechanic from seeing the problem, because he didn't listen to your bug report and instead tried to repro the effect with high speed panic stops (also happened to me).

This is called pedantitic reasoning. You look like a drowning person trying to stay afloat.