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Premature abstraction is a sneaky form of debt that fast moving teams create while trying to be clean. Abramov tells the story of a DRY abstraction that slowly grew special cases until it strangled the codebase, and argues a bad abstraction is worse than a little duplication. It teaches you when not to tidy, which matters as much as when to.
The Wet Codebase
On Deconstruct 2019 by Dan Abramov
- A bad abstraction hurts more than some copy pasted code
- Wait for a clear pattern before you abstract
- Be willing to inline and delete an abstraction that went wrong
