alt Hacker NewsWhy are companies like OpenAI and others that are all-in on LLMs still using ReactJS, Python and so on?
These programming languages and frameworks were made for developer convenience and got wide adoption, because it makes on-boarding easier.
This obviously comes at a cost of performance, complexity and introduces a liability into a system, because they are dependencies that come with a whole bunch of assumptions about how they are used.
Is this tradeoff even worth it anymore?
Probably training data. The largest number of public repos are built on that stack. We recently picked React for new projects because LLMs seemed to be the most reliable when writing React code.