[smt88]

Why would you need LLMs for a boilerplate web application?

[verdverm]

There is a "need" vs "want" aspect here, but often the boilerplates that we reach for become out of date. In theory, an LLM producing these could remain up to date without maintenance, key phrase "in theory"

[trufas]

There's no guarantee the boilerplate an LLM spits out will be up to date. It'll almost definitely have some outdated code in it's dataset that it can reference.

[verdverm]

yes, a basic LLM is susceptible to this. The other major issue is that they will generate different output, even with the same input.

There is work going into giving the LLMs access to external data & systems. This is my basis for saying they will be able to stay up to date.

I have a very different approach I'm working on: https://docs.hofstadter.io/getting-started/creators (human-made blueprints that can be started from and later updated to bring in the upstream changes)