VZVlad Zoffincodapult.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 6 min readI Spent $200 in API Credits Prompting an Agent to Build a Starter. Here’s Why I Still Clone Boilerplates.Last month I decided to test a simple hypothesis: with top-tier models like Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 running inside CLI agents, is the SaaS boilerplate officially dead? I opened a fresh directory, 12R