What Does “Teaching Python” Mean in 2026?

What does teaching Python mean in 2026, when AI can generate code and programming sits inside a much larger computing landscape? Teaching Python started as a podcast about teaching programming in the classroom, but both the hosts and the world around Python have changed.

In this episode, Kelly and Julian reflect on how Python education now connects with AI, data, cybersecurity, cloud computing, software engineering, systems thinking, and automation. They discuss how their own roles have evolved from teacher, coder, and technologist into work that crosses disciplines, and why understanding technology now requires more than simply learning how to write code.

The conversation explores why learning Python still matters in the age of AI-generated code, why reading, debugging, evaluating, testing, and modifying code may be more important than ever, and how teachers and learners can build the judgment needed to work with increasingly capable AI tools.

Python is still here. But teaching Python in 2026 is increasingly about how people learn, build, reason, and make decisions with technology.