This appears to be an academic project. My experience with academic projects is they lack the insight into what parts of making software are actually expensive

This appears to be an academic project. My experience with academic projects is they lack the insight into what parts of making software are actually expensive and time consuming. They automate the most academically interesting piece (code) but ignore the part that takes the most time: process. My assumption was the best approach is to follow the 80/20 rule and have AI and code generators automate the 20% of things that take 80% of the time. Things like project management, boiler plates, QA, and "naming things." Once those pieces are done, putting it into code is largely straight forward.