The point is simple: Python is excellent for exploration, but production AI often stops being a script very quickly. Once the work needs jobs, APIs, auth, observability, failure handling, deployment, and team ownership, Java becomes much more interesting. Not because it is fashionable, but because it is built for systems that have to keep running. https://lnkd.in/d2kjTAT9 #Java #AI #SoftwareArchitecture
I would throw also go into arena - both java ang go are excellent in multithreading performance, java has gereat runtime optimisations and really cool standart libraries and data structures (possibility to choose from different map implementations is priceless sometimes ) - but go has a really low memory footprint. So, whenI do ot need complexity java ofers I use go
With help of an LLM, the exploration becomes easy to implement using just Java 25. My LLMs are instructed to never use Python: I don't like that language, and it's not necessary. Simple scripts are run using Java 25. Even those needing native GPU/compute libraries.
Python in prod AI isn't a naive choice — it's what Netflix, Google, and OpenAI themselves use to run their systems. Java for "robustness" in 2026 is a bit like wearing a tie to code: it reassures the managers, but slows everyone else down. And honestly, if your team spends more time wrestling with Java boilerplate than improving the models… you've solved the wrong problem.