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by kmoser 18 days ago
Unless prompted to do so, why would it? From the article: "Every shortcut you merge into your codebase is a signal about how things are done here."
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Not duplicating code is literally best practice. Why would it deviate from that?
This is far from a universal best practice and heavily depends on what code it is and for what reason you are duplicating it potentially.