[OliverJones]

My experience of this is interesting.

When I'm writing code I care a lot about, I don't have to worry about DRY stuff, because I can't really write the code without figuring out the right abstractions. It starts DRY.

But when I'm cranking out reporting code or boilerplate of some kind and I just want to finish the job, my work starts out dripping wet copypasta. I test it. I then do some squeezing -- refactoring -- to unify some of the abstractions and delete the almost-dup code. I try to DRY it up to a reasonable level. But, I confess, I don't subject the abstractions to as much scrutiny as the code I care about. My successors probably hate me for that. But...