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> When you have a library of every question asked, at some point, you asked most of the easy questions. Have a novel question becomes hard

This would be true if programming were a static field, but given that new programming languages/frameworks/technologies/techniques/etc. are constantly coming out and evolving, that argument doesn't make sense.

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Programming is not a static field in the answers side, but it's in the question side. "How to print characters on a terminal with python?" is the same problem today as it was 25 years ago. The answer changed but the problem remained. That's what people saying that programming isn't static is missing: the problem space grows significantly slower than the solution space.

But you’re supposed to replace Python with a new language that hasn’t been asked about.

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