What does friends and stuff mean

So a guy I know (a friend) recently split from his girlfriend now ex he showed interest in me and said he liked me but now he’s saying he can’t think of relationships at the minute (I didn’t want to rush into anything anyway) but he said he would love to be friends and stuff. What does stuff mean? If he wasn’t thinking anything will develop in the future he would surely just write stuff. Maybe I’m over reading it. But if I wanted to just be friends with someone I wouldn’t write stuff in two different messages.