alt Hacker News> The rest is boiler plate, cargo-culted, Dockerfile, build system and bash environment variable passing
I keep seeing people saying to use an LLM to write boilerplate, but like... do you not just copy that from another project where you already wrote it?
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moooo99 • 04/24/2025
I keep seeing that suggestion as well and the only sensible way I see would be to use one off boilerplate, anything else does not make sense.
If you keep re-using boilerplate once in a while copying it from elsewhere is fine. If you re-use it all the time, just get a macro setup in your editor of choice. IMHO that is way more efficient than asking AI to produce somewhat consistent boilerplate
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No, because it's usually a few years old and already obsolete - the frameworks and the language have gone through a gazillion changes and what you did in 2021 suddenly no longer works at all.