AI can write your auth flow, your Stripe integration, and your blog. But should it? The honest case for using a boilerplate even in an era when Claude Code can scaffold anything.
An itemized, honest accounting of the time a real SaaS boilerplate saves you. Auth, payments, email, SEO, legal, ops. Hour by hour, with the math, not the marketing.
The story behind goilerplate and templUI. How a Go developer escaped the JavaScript framework treadmill, built an open-source UI library, and turned the stack into a boilerplate that ships.