boilerplate
Code you have to write that carries no decisions — imports, wiring, the same three files every time. The clearest early win for generation.
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Cursor for Quality Assurance
“boilerplate tasks that are not super exciting to us. And so uh you know one approach is just to ask the agent itself in agent mode to write unit tests for us. However uh if we do that we're relying on the agent to kind of pull in uh relevan…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“and unnecessary abstraction which you often see uh bad boilerplate stuff. Um, so this is a pretty good uh layout. And again, what I would typically do here is come in and refine this. Uh, often it's a bit verbose, as I said, and trim it dow…”