AI coding tools regenerate deterministic boilerplate instead of scaffolding it
Developers building AI-assisted coding tools observe that current tools ask LLMs to regenerate the same well-understood, deterministic infrastructure — authentication, RBAC, CRUD, routing, migrations, validation — on every project instead of scaffolding it directly. This wastes tokens and generation time and produces inconsistent implementations, when that effort could instead go toward business logic and domain-specific work that AI is better suited for.
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