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Don't Repeat Yourself: the second sentence is the one that matters

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I've watched DRY get applied as a reflex more than as a rule. Someone reads the Pragmatic Programmer, sees two similar lines a week later, and extracts a helper. Six months on the helper is a flag for every caller and a name that no longer covers any of them. The fix isn't to abandon DRY. It's to r…

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  1. 2026-10-06 08:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Don't Repeat Yourself: the second sentence is the one that matters

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