What about not having to write your own training loop? Keras takes away a lot of boilerplate code, it makes your code more readable and less likely to contain bugs. I would compare it to scikit-learn: Sure, you can implement your own Random Forest, but why bother?
odd1e
joined 11 months ago
Yes, very much actually! People around here tend to forget that not everyone in ML is building billion-parameter LLMs, some of us just need a few basic building blocks and a model.fit() function to call