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Maybe it's just my 20 yoe, but that has so far not been my experience with it. It is improving, but definitely not there yet. Even standard boiler plate I can typically bang out faster than asking the AI to do it and then needing to double check it's work because it somehow still manages to screw that up occasionally. Sometimes it does manage to be better than one of the juniors, but using it that way also cuts the legs out from under the career development pipeline which will result in an intermediate and senior dev drought down the road.
Which model are you using? My experience is that it can definitely do "standard boilerplate". What programming language are you using?
The people that claim it helps with boilerplate clearly never took the time to learn how to sed/awk, mustache templates, write a perl/python/etc script, use the regex find/replace in their editor, use the keyboard macro in their editor, use snippets in their editor and I'm sure other ways that aren't immediately coming to mind that have existed forever and won't hallucinate. They're the ones that were not highly skilled in the first place and they're vexingly successful at convincing newbies and laymen to listen to them about LLMs instead of the actual skilled people that actually know what they're talking about.