To add onto this, I'm growing more and more skeptical of auto-generation. I understand how it theoretically helps, but the issue is I now have to learn yet ano

To add onto this, I'm growing more and more skeptical of auto-generation. I understand how it theoretically helps, but the issue is I now have to learn yet another proprietary language to configure the auto-generator (which I then forget because it doesn't get touched often), and when something goes wrong we can't just fix the type and move on, we have to reregenerate the whole module, often with flaky eclipse plugins that require their own arduous "get it working" procedure. Yes typing mundane things manually is a bore and subject to human error, but that's what code reviews and testing are supposed to be for. It's possible my company's just doing it wrong, but I've definitely had the experience where by the time I got the auto-generator doing what I wanted I could have just written the service/classes myself without piling on extra arcane technical knowledge that I use maybe three times a year.