I’m not sure that LLM makes it easier to do. Pain points I’ve seen:
1. You have to remember all the technologies you need included, my company template already has them.
2. LLM doesn’t have a standardized directory structure, so you end up with different projects having different structures and file naming conventions. This makes later refactoring or upgrades across multiple projects less automatable (sometimes this can be solved by having an LLM do those, but they often are unsuccessful in some projects still)
3. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff. If your company has already moved to a version after that knowledge cutoff, you need to upgrade the LLM generated code.
I very much prefer having a company template to asking an LLM to generate the initial project.
I agree, initial comment was basically that, and seeing a lot of folks (especially those with debatable technical skills) being very impressed with LLMs for boilerplate generation, e.g. "I build a WHOLE APP", etc.
Maybe they haven't use the wizard in IDEs like Intellij and Visual Studio. You can boostrap things so quickly that you don't even think about it, just like creating a new file in the editor.
LLM makes that a bit easier and faster to do, but is also a bit more error prone than a template project.