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We humans just can't help ourselves, but to invent mental shortcuts. Making a judgment "is this really a good abstraction or am I just mindlessly deduplicating code" is context-dependent, nuanced and requires some mental effort - much more work than "do I have it repeating 2 or 3 times already" which is mindless and mechanical.



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