the.com/boilerplate
Legal copy-paste so standardized it might as well be stamped into steel.
means Standardized text or code reused unchanged across many documents, contracts, or programs.
from From the thick steel plates used to build steam boilers — and the identical, ready-made syndicated text 19th-century newspapers received on metal printing plates, unchangeable as the boilers themselves.
Newspaper rootsSyndicates shipped pre-set metal plates to small papers.
UnchangeableBoiler plates were riveted, not edited — hence the meaning.
Coder slangProgrammers curse boilerplate as repetitive setup code.