[benrutter]

Yeah I completely agree with this! I really like books for learning because they do exactly this.

Take the Rust book, you have a neat and organised collection of the majority of Rust features you're likely to use.

An LLM might be handy in answering questions like "Why is the borrow checker failing this code?" but that's a really different proposition to getting a detailed and complete summary of Rust's key features. It could maybe output something along these lines, but I think the output would be considerably less usable and reliable than a book.

[skydhash]

The moment you gain some expertise in a subject, LLMs fail horribly. Because you will have a mind model of the thing you're working with, LLM won't be able to solve what you can't, as it will often require a deep dive into the internals. And that's when you want a complete reference/manual nearby. As for boilerplate, most experts have project templates or can extract one from an old project.