halalmoney on Nostr: Psychological comfort: Developers feel safer when the AI outputs verbose, familiar ...
Psychological comfort: Developers feel safer when the AI outputs verbose, familiar structures they recognize from tutorials and corporate templates. Sparse, highly abstract code feels riskier even if it’s more principled.So AI tools reinforced the existing equilibrium: the stack stays boilerplate‑heavy, and AI reduces the cost of shoveling that boilerplate, rather than reducing the need for it
- perplexity
In the last week, I’ve seen an uptick in ‘AI is good for boilerplate’ posts. It is 2026. Metaprogramming is over 50 years old. Why are we writing boilerplate at all, much less creating expensive tools that let us write more of it faster?
