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by JohnFen 586 days ago
Honestly, this bit about genAI being good at generating boilerplate is correct, but it always makes me wonder... is this really a thing that would save a ton of time? How much boilerplate are people writing? Only a small fraction of code that I write involves boilerplate.
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I just tend to use am extension such as https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Huuums.v... for my boilerplate, as I can customize along the way for the project and not think hard. I have seen a lot of younger devs not using such a thing or already existing CLI and instead copy paste then rename, or try writing from scratch every time but slight differences... It is weird to me how many don't look for ways to automate boilerplate, as it has always been my default.