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The biggest issue with DRY is commitment to a bad abstraction just for the sake of not copy-pasting some code. Abstractions should be liquid while you're figuring out the best way to model your problem, and DRY can often be a culprit in having a model that's a bit too rigid.

Obviously YMMV.



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