Comment by infinitebit

I feel this deeply. Although abstraction isn’t a one way door, “deduplicating” logic tends to be much easier than breaking big functions back down, and so these days I tend to leave a comment with the date wondering if it is too similar to some other code. then if i come across it again months later and it still is, then maybe it is safe to make it DRY.

I think DRY is the first heuristic for “good code” that most junior devs actually grasp, and so they become very dogmatic about it for a while