Stop Using Python for Your Gen AI Apps, Use Go and Genkit Instead

Introduction For the last few years, every Gen AI tutorial, framework, and "hello world" has assumed one thing: that you are writing Python. It made sense at the start. The research community lives in Python, the model providers ship Python SDKs first, and the notebook culture is hard to beat for prototyping. But there is a quiet, important shift happening in 2026: the teams actually shipping AI features at scale are increasingly moving their production Gen AI workloads off Python, and onto languages built for services. Go is at the center of that shift...