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by mahyarm 3932 days ago
The problem with verbose code, is missing the small difference in the boilerplate and creating new bugs.

It's the same problem with copy/paste code. With copy/paste code, it often has small changes that you can miss easily. You have to read every line of code to not miss the small variations. If the person bothered to generalize the copy paste code a bit, you can cover all cases in one spot, and be less likely to miss problems.