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Frameworks and high-level languages exist as abstractions to make writing code easier for humans.

Wouldn't make more sense for a machine to just write assembly directly?

They aren’t trained on assembly. Even if they were, the tools for debugging assembly wouldn’t be as helpful if the LLM wanted to iterate when given compiler errors. The compiler errors they’re trained on are errors humans run into.

Now they also have training on frameworks but those keep changing. So I think the best abstraction is plain javascript - it has the most training data and javascript written twenty years ago still works today.

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