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I Spent $200 in API Credits Prompting an Agent to Build a Starter. Here’s Why I Still Clone Boilerplates.
Prompting Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.6 to scaffold a multi-page Next.js 16 app burns hundreds of dollars in API tokens and hours of agent baby-sitting. Here is the math behind why cloning beats prompting.
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