Technology

Going through as I go:

• validate_email does not need to exist, since model fields by default have blank=False meaning they must have a value. This should be picked up by ModelSerializer already, since it is using the model.
• validate_username doesn't do anything that couldn't be accomplished by using MinLengthValidator - and in addition it should not exist in serializers - it belongs directly in the declaration of the field in models.
  • That way, you are validating this field regardless of it being used for the REST API or the web application

On the subject of your view code:

That whole code can be thrown out and replaced with:

class UserProfileViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = UserProfile.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserProfileSerializer
    permission_classes = [IsAccountAdminOrReadOnly]

So, honestly I don't know what to think of your example of "boilerplate" beyond the fact that you don't quite grasp Django and Django Rest Framework well enough to understand how to implement things properly, without repeating yourself. I also think some of your code like verbose_name and verbose_name_plural is not an example of "boilerplate". I would also argue that ordering is something that should be implemented via OrderingFilter so that the API client can pick different orderings as part of the GET request.

I think a full example could be reduced to something like:

from django.db import models

class UserProfile(models.Model):
    username = models.CharField(
        max_length=100, 
        unique=True, 
        help_text="Unique username", 
        validators=[MinLengthValidator(limit_value=3)]
    )
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True, help_text="User's email address")
    full_name = models.CharField(max_length=255, blank=True, null=True, help_text="User's full name")
    date_joined = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, help_text="Date when the user profile was created")
    is_active = models.BooleanField(default=True, help_text="Designates whether this user should be treated as active.")

    def __str__(self):
        return self.username

from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import UserProfile

class UserProfileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = UserProfile
        fields = ['id', 'username', 'email', 'full_name', 'date_joined', 'is_active']
        read_only_fields = ['id', 'date_joined']

from rest_framework import viewsets
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAccountAdminOrReadOnly
from .models import UserProfile
from .serializers import UserProfileSerializer

class UserProfileViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = UserProfile.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserProfileSerializer
    permission_classes = [IsAccountAdminOrReadOnly]

from rest_framework import routers

router = routers.SimpleRouter()
router.register(r'users', UserProfileViewSet)
urlpatterns = router.urls

So really the only "boilerplate" here is how many of the fields from UserProfile you want to expose via the REST API and how many are read only? That's not something an LLM can decide, that's a policy decision.

So really, I wonder what it is that you are expecting an LLM to do? Because this small example doesn't have much to it and it does a LOT just by leveraging DRF and leaving you to just define your business logic and objects. If you can't be bothered to even think about your models and what data you are storing, I don't know what to say to that, beyond the fact that you just don't want to code even the easiest things yourself?

I edited my original comment to leave out partly why I posted it but there's no point in self-censorship as the thread has devolved into tone policing and strawmanning; just further evidence of how privileged Westerners are and those who benefit from Western hegemony.

AI under capitalism is coming for all our jobs due to automation as predictably estimated by multiple learned marxists but instead of taking the scientific socialist approach of understanding why; ie capitalism not technology in itself and we should use the technology to progress socialism for the betterment of humanity, there is bad-faith reactionary Nietzschean takes and so much self-importance on why allowance should be made for their hypocritical sensibilities and that they should be considered part of the vanguard despite wilfull ignorance when I suspect their class conciousness on the world stage is woefully inadequate for those who call themselves marxists.

Well done for continuing to post despite the spiteful ignorance.

(I personally asked about the Maths because AI is coming for my job too and I want to better understand the technology, and I feel for me, this is a more serious path to do this. Marxism is a science and we should not be burying our heads in the sand. Thanks again. Also the dialectical dispatches blog are interesting reads too)