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and of course vanilla

That depends on who is writing it and what the app is. Most frontend code is written by people who don't have as much time to focus on performance and optimization as core framework developers, so their once their apps reach a critical mass of 'actually big enough to benefit from a framework' the app is worse than it would have been if it was written with a framework in the first place.

The problem for all of us, and where frameworks often make the web suck, is that very few apps are actually that big. Frontend developers love to put React in a page that has one form input a button, which is dumb.



Ostensibly, an unbiased, well-trained model would solve this because it would/could write fast, performant vanilla. As a product owner, you probably care more about the performance of the product over the specific technical implementation details.

I take that to be the point of the article: the bias towards React and of course the training data being stale means that generated code will always have a bit of staleness and as we provide less context for the AI (e.g. StackOverflow), the bias towards staleness will amplify given the large body of stale information it has ingested and amalgamated.




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