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C) Write a highly specific, custom-tailored boilerplate generator that does 80% of the work and needs only a day or two to implement.
This sounds just extremely dumb to me, as in "do something manually for 2 minutes or spend 2 days automating it"
Also, DRY in 90% of the cases is a sham
DRY, but also pre-optimization and dependency hell are bad.