Listening to Simon Willison on Lenny, he mentions it works really well to start with a template. Which I think points to one advantage of using well established opinionated frameworks. The LLM will see How Things Are Done, and can just follow those conventions. Same pattern in having lots of tiny working code examples of things, which in some way is what a framework is. On the other hand, a Very Thin Template (what Simon mentions) might work great too.
# Apr 3, 2026