go generate is only useful if you have tools to use it with! Here is an incomplete list of useful tools that generate code.

• go tool yacc – Yacc for Go.
• stringer – Implements fmt.Stringer interface for enums.
• gostringer – Implements fmt.GoStringer interface for enums.
• jsonenums – Implements json.Marshaler and json.Unmarshaler interfaces for enums.
• gojson - Generates go struct definitions from example json documents.
• vfsgen - Generates a vfsdata.go file that statically implements the given virtual filesystem.