Today I spent some time thinking about a phrase I see often in development: “generate boilerplate code.” At first it sounded a bit strange. I kept seeing it in documentation, tools, and AI workflows, but I didn’t really stop to think about what it actually meant. In simple terms, boilerplate code is the basic structure you write again and again when starting something new. It’s not the unique part of the program. It’s the repeated foundation. For example, when creating a new component, a form,
