This is something I've been wondering about...

If boilerplate was such a big issue, we should have worked on improving code generation. In fact, many tools and frameworks exist that did this already:

- rails has fantastic code generation for CRUD use cases

- intelliJ IDEs have been able to do many types of refactors and class generation that included some of the boilerplate

I haven't reached a conclusion on this train of thought yet, though.

Pre-llm corpos my thoughts were that we should be training juniors on code generators. Instead we’re somewhere between rtfm or dont.