Comment by rdevilla

> Pandas is clearly quite ergonomic for various exploratory interactive analyses, but the API is, imo, awful.

Having previously inherited (and now dispossessed) an un-disentangleable pile of Python, pandas, and SQL hacks reminiscent of a spreadsheet rammed with inscrutable Excel formulae, I have no idea how data scientists collaborate on anything with this technology. It's like when bioinformatics was full of write-only Perl code that was maybe executed successfully once for the purposes of a study or paper, and was kept around for future archaeologists to hopefully one day resuscitate when the need may arise again.

If programmers are expected to just throw garbage like this at the next asshole with the misfortune to have to maintain code that was never designed to be maintained, it's not a surprise that the industry is once again moving towards write-only code, this time produced at scale by LLMs.

It's like we're back to Visual Studio Ultimate slopping out 10k lines of XAML in response to your dragging and dropping in the WYSIWYG. There is a reason nobody does this any more.