I Let AI Rediscover Python’s Forgotten Powers

"The future isn’t just about AI writing code. It’s about AI showing us parts of Python we’ve ignored for years." If you’ve been coding in Python for a while, you’ve likely fallen into a trap: You Google the same things. You pip install the same libraries. You forget the built-in ones. But then I asked ChatGPT a weird question: “What can I build using only Python’s standard library that feels futuristic?” What followed was a journey. One that took me through dusty corners of http.server, asyncio, sched, collections, dataclasses, and more—modules that have quietly gotten upgrades but remain tragically underused. And guess what? GPT loves this stuff. It will build weird, brilliant tools using only what’s already inside your Python install.

May 11, 2025 - 15:03

I Let AI Rediscover Python’s Forgotten Powers

"The future isn’t just about AI writing code. It’s about AI showing us parts of Python we’ve ignored for years."

If you’ve been coding in Python for a while, you’ve likely fallen into a trap:
You Google the same things.
You pip install the same libraries.
You forget the built-in ones.

But then I asked ChatGPT a weird question:

“What can I build using only Python’s standard library that feels futuristic?”

What followed was a journey. One that took me through dusty corners of http.server, asyncio, sched, collections, dataclasses, and more—modules that have quietly gotten upgrades but remain tragically underused.

And guess what? GPT loves this stuff. It will build weird, brilliant tools using only what’s already inside your Python install.