Why I Stopped Using AI for Boilerplate (and What I Use It For Instead)
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Hot take: the worst use of AI coding assistants is the thing most people use them for — generating boilerplate. I spent three months auto-generating CRUD endpoints, form components, and config files. I felt productive. My git log was full of big commits. Then I looked at what I actually shipped, and I realized I'd been optimizing the wrong thing. The Boilerplate Trap Here's what happens when you use AI for boilerplate: You prompt: "Generate a CRUD API for users with Express and Pr