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Duplication Isn't Always an Anti-Pattern

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52 points birdculture | 1 comments | 02 Dec 25 08:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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theoldgreybeard ◴[07 Dec 25 14:28 UTC] No.46181901[source]▶
I had the pleasure of Sandi Metz coming to a company I worked for and going us a “boot camp” of sorts for all of the engineering principles she espouses and it had a profound impact on how I view software development. Whatever the company paid for her to come - it was worth every penny.

“Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction”

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1. codr7 ◴[07 Dec 25 15:02 UTC] No.46182162[source]▶
Couldn't agree more!

You develop a sense for when the time is right over the years, by maintaining over engineered pieces of shit, many written by yourself.

To beginners it seems like coming up with the idea and building it is the difficult part; it isn't, not even close. The only difficult parts worth mentioning is keeping complexity on a tight leash and maintaining conceptual integrity.