Sorry, to clarify, a boilerplate task is not the repetitive job that you are automating. It’s the code that’s doing it.

What I’m saying is that you (and many others) are incorrectly attributing (your paragraph about the benefits your finished program is conferring to you) to AI, because that happens to be the path you took to arrive there.

In reality, the reason it was able to produce functional code is because your problem was already solved and documented. A few years ago, instead of “asking AI”, you would have simply copied and pasted the boilerplate code from someone else’s project. In all likelihood it also would have been faster for you to have done so

Quick edit: Sorry again, just want to further clarify that when I say “boilerplate task” I’m referring to a type of programing problem that you solve with “boilerplate code”. Reading back the above I was kind of using them interchangeably which is not strictly accurate