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just ask it! ;)

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what do you have against seaborn?

The guidance to avoid using Seaborn and to prefer Matplotlib for charts is based on ensuring consistency, simplicity, and avoiding potential issues with styling or compatibility. Matplotlib is a more foundational library that offers greater control over the specifics of the plot, and its direct use can help ensure that visualizations meet precise requirements without unexpected styling changes or limitations imposed by higher-level libraries like Seaborn.

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This is the LLM confabulating an explanation for your question; they’re not explaining why their human masters set that prompt/constraint. At most it’s reflecting on the prompt it was given (by OpenAI) and justifying that for you (which your question suggests), at worst it’s completely freestyling (maybe it will say the same about matplotlib if prompted?)