Honestly I find writing Rust more fun than writing Python. Python just doesn't scale, any non-trivial quantity of it has a habit of turning into spaghetti however hard I try to be disciplined.

Rust, although annoying at a micro scale, does at least enforce some structure on your code, although like Kling I miss OO.

AI has made Rust approachable to a new audience of programmers who didn't want to dedicate their life to learning the ins and outs of the language. Especially for C++ developers who already learned the ins and outs of a hyper complex programming language and don't want to go through that a second time.

Before AI, writing Rust was frustrating experience that involved spending 90% of your time reading documentation and grumbling that "I could do this in 5 minutes in C++"

Now I can write Rust in a way that makes sense to my C++ addled brain and let the AI do the important job of turning it into an idiomatic Rust program that compiles.