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Discussion on: DRY & the Wrong Abstraction

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Fyodor

For a mediocre developer, it takes discipline to be dry and it takes iron balls to justify the dry (=longer) way to bosses.

For talented autistic hackers loving their craft, it takes discipline to not be dry when necessary and it takes iron balls to justify the “wet” way to themselves.

Dry can be different, as well as context for it. That’s why it’s definitely not something that’s cut in stone. But in general, it’s a nice practice. The smaller the team/project, the nicer it is.