Minus the “Feed the Data to AI”, this is as it always has been. Never use company computers for personal work and if you have to use a company guest network, use a VPN, etc…

The only part that’s new here is the AI and I guarantee any company these people move to will do the same thing.

Not sure about LLM’s as thats not what my team does, but for API’s we found better performance with PHP of the two, that was ~10yrs ago though…

Rust and Golang blow them both out of the water for REST API’s. (Like by 100x speed/request rates) Definitely recommend going that way for high traffic endpoints. The last one I wrote, Rust won that battle, but ymmv.

Ironically, Python is older than PHP, albeit not by more than a few years (1991 vs 1995).

Both are antiquated at this point, but both have their uses, so do what works, no shame here.

I tend to prefer statically typed languages personally and TDD is a big win for larger code bases when possible. My current place of employment has been on the Golang and Rust bandwagon for a while, but theres still plenty of dotNet, PHP and Python hanging around because they were just the best tool for the job at the time.