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by salomon812 1159 days ago
This feels like another wording of the motto from a great blog post by Sandi Metz:

"Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction"

https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction

I find myself reaching for this all the time after my first instinct is DRY. Makes me thing hard about if I should couple things or not.