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by agentultra 1053 days ago
Indirection is not an abstraction.

An abstraction creates a new language, a new semantic layer, that has a precise definition. You can express laws and properties from its definition. This lets you think in the new semantic layer without thinking about the lower levels of complexity.

But yes… the pattern class problem is real. a good number of us have all done it once or twice.