Boilerplate

Standard, repetitive code that must be written in nearly the same form every time, carrying little logic of its own.

Example: The near-identical setup code you write every time you start a new file.

In practice: Frameworks and code generators exist largely to eliminate boilerplate, though heavy 'magic' used to remove it can quietly trade away readability for brevity.

Debated: What counts as 'boilerplate worth eliminating' versus 'explicitness worth keeping' is a live debate — heavy metaprogramming or codegen used to remove it can make a codebase harder to follow even as it gets shorter.